''Apaches'' is a Spanish drama television series starring

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and

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. Produced by New Atlantis for

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, it was however globally released by

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in September 2017, only to be broadcast on the free-to-air channel Antena 3 in Spain later, in early 2018.

Premise

The story is set in the 1990s, in the "gritty" district of Tetuán, Madrid. Miguel (

) has left the working-class neighborhood behind and has become a promising journalist based on the centre of Madrid, living with Cris (

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), a lawyer. However, after his father becomes the victim of a fraud that ruined him, Miguel is forced to return to the neighborhood and turn into a criminal in order to save his family and avenge his father. There he meets his childhood friend Sastre (

), a lowkey criminal in a relationship with Miranda ( Ingrid García-Jonsson), and the two friends enter a rampage of robberies and burglaries. Everything goes as planned until the emergence of Carol (

), the girlfriend of the dangerous criminal boss "El Chatarrero" (

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), threatens to jeopardise their plans.

Cast

as Miguel. *

as Sastre. *

as Carol. * Ingrid García-Jonsson as Miranda. *

as El Chatarrero. * as Dela. * Edgar Costas as Boris. *

as Cris. *

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as Vicky. *

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as Teresa. * as Miguel's father. *

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as Silvia.

Production and release

's flagship channel Antena 3 announced its intention to adapt the Miguel Sáez Carral's novel ''Apaches'' (

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, 2014) in May 2014. The series was produced by . Adapted from Sáez Carral's novel, the screenplay was written by Sáez himself in collaboration with Carlos Montero and María López Castaño.

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, Alberto Ruiz Rojo and

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co-directed the series (Calparsoro episodes 1–4, Ruiz Rojo episodes 5–8 and Vivas episodes 9–12). Shooting locations included the Fuerte de San Francisco housing area in

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, as well as

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and Villaverde in

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. The pilot was pre-screened in 2015 and the release of the series was tentatively scheduled for Autumn 2015, yet Atresmedia eventually shelved the 12-episode series. The media group later reached an agreement with

for the distribution of the series, which was subsequently made available to the global market on 8 September 2017. The first episode eventually aired in Spain on Antena 3 on 8 January 2018, after its release on Netflix. The original free-to-air run in Antena 3 ended on 26 March 2018.

;Free-to-air run on Antena 3

References

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