''Helga y Flora'' (

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: ''Helga and Flora'') is a

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created and written by

Omar Saavedra Santis Omar Saavedra Santis (15 July 1944 – 23 December 2021) was a Chilean writer. He spent many years in exile in Europe after the CIA-backed coup that toppled the government of Salvador Allende in 1973. He won numerous literary prizes, among them ...

, produced by Suricato for the Chilean channel Canal 13. It premiered on April 25, 2020. The series is set in the fields of

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in the 1930s and runs through different narrative arcs in the social context of the time, in which women recently have labor and political rights. It stars

Catalina Saavedra Catalina Saavedra Pérez (born 8 January 1968) is a Chilean film, stage and television actress. She is known to international audiences for playing the title character in the 2009 film '' The Maid'', for which she received several awards and nom ...

, Amalia Kassai, and Alejandro Sieveking, the secondary performance of

Tiago Correa Tiago Kadú Correa Girrulat (born August 28, 1981, in Santiago de Chile Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chil ...

, Alessandra Guerzoni, Ernesto Meléndez, Daniela Lhorente, Hernán Contreras, Geraldine Neary, among other actors. The series was awarded CLP$485,426,640 from the funds of the Consejo Nacional de Televisión de Chile in 2016. The recordings began on March 9 and were paused in May 2018, due to the weather conditions in the Magallanes Region. They were then resumed in November to culminate in full on December 14, 2018.

Plot

The story of Helga Gunkel ( Amalia Kassai) and Flora Gutiérrez (

), the first women of the Chilean tax police. Both are sent on their first mission: to travel to Kerren, a ranch on the Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, in order to investigate the theft of Sigfried, a fine-blooded horse owned by Don Raymond Gamper ( Alejandro Sieveking), a powerful rancher of

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origin, owner of everything and everyone, and about whom the Government of Chile suspects that it may be helping

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. However, this event opens the floodgate to a whole world of mysteries, secrets and crossed stories in an inhospitable land. This apparent simple case hides a criminal who has returned to the town for revenge, initiating a series of other crimes that the people prefer to ignore but for our investigators it is transformed into a mysterious puzzle of intrigues that must be solved at the risk of losing their own lives.

Cast

* Alejandro Sieveking as Mr. Raymond Gamper, German farmer, founder of Kerren. *

as Flora Gutiérrez, police woman sent to Kerren. * Amalia Kassai as Helga Gunkel, young researcher sent to Kerren. *

Hernán Contreras Hernán is a Spanish masculine given name, originating from Germanic Hernan in the Visigoth culture in Spain. It is the Latinized version of the compound name ''Fard-nanth'', which seems to mean "gentle traveler" or "spiritual traveler". The House ...

es David Acevedo, young inmate. *

as Zacarías Llancaqueo, sergeant. * Ernesto Meléndez as Ezequiel Ligman, Kerren Foreman. * Daniela Lhorente as Úrsula Millán, Gamper's housekeeper.Daniela Lhorente: Úrsula es un personaje "que sabe mucho"
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as Clara, owner of the "Hotel Ñuble". * Geraldine Neary as Eduvigis Carimán. * Giordano Rossi as Gabriel Gamper, Mr. Gamper's Son. * Aldo Parodi as Remigio * Mario Ossandón as Alexander Nestroy, Mr. Gamper's Personal Physician. * Daniel Antivilo as Atilio, Personal Physician. * Juan Carlos Maldonado as Attaché * Ernesto Gutiérrez as Aliaga, inspector. * Isidora Loyola as Rosario * Lisandro Cabascango as Ramón.

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 12226556 2020 Chilean television series debuts 2020 Chilean television series endings 2020s Chilean television series Canal 13 (Chilean TV channel) original programming Crime thriller television series Spanish-language television shows Television series set in the 1930s