El Caso. Crónica de sucesos
television series
El Caso. Crónica de sucesos is a Spanish procedural television series, starring Verónica Sánchez and Fernando Guillén Cuervo. The plot follows two investigative journalists working for a sensationalist newspaper in Francoist Spain. Produced by RTVE in collaboration with Plano a Plano, it aired in 2016 on La 1.
Premise
The fiction is set in Madrid in 1966. The plot tells the story of a newspaper's newsroom specialised in reporting lurid crimes happening in Francoist Spain, focusing on the reports of two investigative journalists working for the newspaper El Caso, Clara López (Verónica Sánchez) and Jesús Expósito (Fernando Guillén Cuervo), often running parallel to the police investigations.
Cast
Verónica Sánchez as Clara López-Doriga, new journalist of El Caso, upper-middle-class woman educated abroad.
Fernando Guillén Cuervo as Jesús Expósito, investigative journalist of El Caso, former policeman.
Antonio Garrido as Antonio Camacho, chief police officer, antagonistic towards Jesús.
Francisco Ortiz as Miguel Montenegro, young police officer.
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