Eight decades. Two lovers. One Spain tearing itself apart.
Octavio and Adela were born on the same day, April 14th, 1931. During the following 8 decades, their lives will intertwine through intense encounters and misunderstandings in 8 episodes. A passionate love story between a brave and fighting woman and a man confronted with his contradictions. They will have to face coming from families on opposing sides of a country slowly heading towards a Civil War, along with the history of Spain and Europe as a background.
Acting
Ana Rujas and Javier Rey age 50 years without losing chemistry.
Direction
Medem's signature time jumps finally serve a story that earns them.
Cinematography
Spain's landscapes as silent witness to private and public wars.
Director
Julio Medem
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title references both the episode count and April 14, 1931—the day the Second Spanish Republic was declared, making the lovers' birthdate politically loaded from minute one.
Medem spent fifteen years developing this; the eight-episode structure was originally conceived as a series before he compressed it into feature form, explaining its deliberate, almost novelistic pacing.
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