Fortunata y Jacinta (TV series)

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Fortunata y Jacinta
Genre Historical drama
Based on Fortunata y Jacinta
by Benito Pérez Galdós
Directed by Mario Camus
Starring Ana Belén
Maribel Martín
Composer(s) Antón García Abril
Country of origin Spain
Original language(s) Spanish
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 10
Production
Running time ~ 60 min per episode
Production company(s) Televisión Española
Telefrance
Telvetia
Release
Original network TVE-1
Original release 7 May (1980-05-07) –
22 May 1980 (1980-05-22)
External links
[{{#property:P856}} Website]

Fortunata y Jacinta is a 1980 limited television series consisting of an adaptation of 1887 Benito Pérez Galdós' novel Fortunata y Jacinta. Directed by Mario Camus, it was produced by Televisión Española (TVE) in collaboration with French TeleFrance and Swiss Telvetia. It starred Ana Belén as Fortunata and Maribel Martín as Jacinta. It originally aired on the flagship TVE channel.

Premise

The fiction is set in Madrid from 1869 to 1876.[1] It tracks the lives of the well-off Jacinta (Maribel Martín) and the lower-class Fortunata (Ana Belén) as well as their families and neighbors, depicting features such as the poverty, malice, greedness or social privilege of the time.[2]

Cast

Production and release

Fortunata y Jacinta was directed by Mario Camus. Produced by Televisión Española (TVE) in collaboration with French TeleFrance and Swiss Telvetia, the series had a 160 million peseta budget, an expensive budget at the time.[2] It was filmed from 14 May to 5 December 1979.[1] Besides the lavish set prepared to represent the Madrilenian Plaza de Pontejos (es), outdoor scenes were also shot in Madrid, Aranjuez, Boadilla del Monte, Villaviciosa de Odón, Toledo, Comillas, Burgos and Seville.[1]

The series consisted of ten episodes with a running time of roughly 60 minutes.[5]

It originally aired on TVE-1 from 7 May 1980 to 22 May 1980.[6] The series re-aired in Spain multiple times: 1983 (TVE-2), 1987 (TVE-1), 2005 (Canal Nostalgia) and 2007 (TVE 50 Años).[7] It was broadcast again on La 2 in 2020 on the occasion of the "Galdosian year".[8]

It was released in VHS format in 1994 and in DVD format in 2004.[9]

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  9. ↑ George 2013, p. 161.
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