''Fortunata y Jacinta'' is a 1980 limited television series consisting of an adaptation of 1887 Benito Pérez Galdós' novel ''

Fortunata y Jacinta ''Fortunata y Jacinta'' (Fortunata and Jacinta), was written by Benito Pérez Galdós in 1887 and published in the same year. It is, together with Leopoldo Alas y Ureña's '' La Regenta'' (The Judge's Wife), one of the most popular and represe ...

''. Directed by

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, it was produced by

Televisión Española Televisión Española (acronym TVE, branded tve, "Spanish Television") is Spain's national state-owned public television broadcaster and the oldest regular television service in the country. It was also the first regular television service in ...

(TVE) in collaboration with French TeleFrance and Swiss Telvetia. It starred

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as Fortunata and

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as Jacinta. It originally aired on the flagship TVE channel.

Premise

The fiction is set in

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from 1869 to 1876. It tracks the lives of the well-off Jacinta (

) and the lower-class Fortunata (

) as well as their families and neighbors, depicting features such as the poverty, malice, greedness or social privilege of the time.

Cast

as Fortunata. *

as Jacinta. *

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as Juanito Santa Cruz. * as Maximiliano Rubín. * Paco Algora as Nicolás. *

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as Evaristo Feijoo. *

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as Mauricia la Dura. *

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as Barbarita. *

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as José Izquierdo. * Berta Riaza as Guillermina Pacheco. * Luisa Ponte as Doña Lupe la de los Pavos. *

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as Aurora. * as Villalonga.

Production and release

''Fortunata y Jacinta'' was directed by

. Produced by

(TVE) in collaboration with French TeleFrance and Swiss Telvetia, the series had a 160 million peseta budget, an expensive budget at the time. It was filmed from 14 May to 5 December 1979. Besides the lavish set prepared to represent the Madrilenian , outdoor scenes were also shot in

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, Toledo,

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and

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. The series consisted of ten episodes with a running time of roughly 60 minutes. It originally aired on

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from 7 May 1980 to 22 May 1980. The series re-aired in Spain multiple times: 1983 ( TVE-2), 1987 (TVE-1), 2005 (Canal Nostalgia) and 2007 (TVE 50 Años). It was broadcast again on La 2 in 2020 on the occasion of the "Galdosian year". It was released in VHS format in 1994 and in

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format in 2004.

References

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