The Spanish transition to democracy narrated as a thriller fast-paced with the epicenter in the February 23 coup. This is the feeling it conveys Anatomy of an instant, the four-part series directed by Alberto Rodríguez and produced by Movistar+ that premiered at the San Sebastián Film Festival. Inspired by the book of the same name by Javier Cercas, the series focuses on three key figures, the only members of Congress who didn't duck in Congress on February 23rd when the military started shooting: the Secretary General of the Communist Party, Santiago Carrillo (Eduard Fernández); the Prime Minister, Adolfo Suárez (Álvaro Morte); and General and Vice President Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado (Manolo Solo), to whom the first three episodes are dedicated; the fourth chronicles the trial of the military coup leaders.

If a Netflix production opened the San Sebastian Festival on Friday, this Saturday it was Movistar+ who presented the first great Spanish film in the competition, the thriller by Alberto Rodríguez The tigersFor now, the platforms are considering the cherries of audiovisual productions, which includes festivals. The tigers It is a good film, surely the most well-rounded by its director since The minimal island and, unlike this one and Model 77, has no historical or sociological ambitions and is therefore more solid in the construction of the plot and the characters. The protagonists are two submariner brothers from Huelva (Antonio de la Torre and Barbara Lennie), children and grandchildren of scuba divers, who work doing repairs or maintenance on oil platforms and ships, a kind of miners of the sea who risk their lives every day for four duros.