Sexual Revolution Pioneer Tale ‘Hildegart’ Wraps Production for Amazon Studios (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comPablo Sandoval Driving into Spanish-language movies and series, Amazon Studios is hoping to repeat the success of “Argentina, 1985” with big Spanish period production “Hildegart,” starring Najwa Nimri (“Money Heist,” “Locked Up”) and Alba Planas (“Skam España”), which wrapped production Aug.
19 in Madrid. “Hildegart” has shot in the Spanish capital filming seven weeks and some days at historical heritage sites such as Spain’s Congress, Madrid’s Puerta del Sol central square, and its Atheneum.
Directed by Paula Ortiz (“The Bride,” “Across the River and Into the Trees”), “Hildegart” is a fact-based tale of the extraordinary and tragic life of Spain’s Hildegart Rodríguez, born in 1914, a child prodigy raised by her mother to be a model for future women, who gave conferences on feminism and sexuality from the age of 11, writing on prostitution, contraception and eugenics – her monograph “Profilaxis anticoncepcional” sold 8,000 copies in one week just in Madrid – and accompanied H.G.
Wells when he made a visit to Spain. Sensing that she was losing control of her daughter – who, in this take at least, begins to experience freedom, meeting socialist Abel Vilella – on June 9, 1933, when Hildegart Rodríguez was asleep, her mother shot her dead three times in the head and once in the heart.
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