El padre de Caín

El padre de Caín is a two-part Spanish television miniseries directed by Salvador Calvo adapting the novel of the same name by Rafael Vera. It stars Quim Gutiérrez, Aura Garrido and Oona Chaplin.

Premise[]

Set in the 1980s, the plot follows the story of a Civil Guard agent who requests a transfer to the  [es] (in the Basque Country), when ETA was most active.^[1]

Cast[]

• Quim Gutiérrez as Eloy.^[2]
• Aura Garrido as Begoña.^[2]
• Oona Chaplin as Mercedes.^[2]
•  [es] as sargento Delgado.^[2]
• Luis Bermejo as comandante de Intxaurrondo.^[2]
• Luis Zahera as Bermejo.^[2]
• Eduardo Lloveras as Carmelo.^[2]
• Cristina Plazas as madre de Mercedes.^[2]
• Ricardo Gómez as Daniel.^[2]
• Patrick Criado as Ander.^[2]

Production and release[]

Based on the novel of the same name by  [es],^[3] the series was written by Alejandro Hernández and  [ca] and directed by Salvador Calvo.^[4] Produced by Telecinco in collaboration with Boomerang TV,^[4] it was filmed in Asturias (including Avilés), the Madrid region and San Sebastián.^[5] Filming wrapped by August 2015 after 5 weeks of production.^[5][6][7] The score was composed by  [ca].^[2] The series premiered on 6 December 2016. The first part earned good viewership figures (3,223,000 average viewers and a 19% audience share).^[8] The finale aired a day later, on 7 December, commanding significantly less attention from the audience (2,518,000 viewers and a 14.5% share).^[8]

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