Entertainment
30 August 2022Netflix unveiled today the trailer and official poster for Santo, its new crime thriller that premieres worldwide on September 16. The series, created by Carlos López (Hache, El príncipe, La embajada) and directed by Vicente Amorim (A Divisão, Romance Policial: Espinosa, Copa Hotel), is the first Spanish fiction shot between Spain and Brazil, produced by Nostromo Pictures for Netflix.
Santo is a fast-paced crime, action and intrigue series that occasionally resembles horror. Starring Raúl Arévalo (Antidisturbios, Tarde para la ira, Black Beach) and Bruno Gagliasso (O Sétimo Guardião, Sol naciente, Mujeres ambiciosas), Victoria Guerra (Auga seca, 3 mulheres) and Greta Fernández (Elisa y Marcela, La hija de un ladrón).
The series tells the story of Santo, the world's most wanted drug trafficker whose face has never been revealed. The two cops who go after him, Cardona (Bruno Gagliasso) and Millán (Raúl Arévalo), are initially opposites, but they will have to learn to collaborate and understand each other in order to solve the case and stay alive.
About Nostromo Pictures:
NOSTROMO PICTURES, founded in 2010, has produced more than 20 national and international feature films including Palm Trees in the Snow by Fernando González Molina, Red Lights by Rodrigo Cortés starring Cillian Murphy, Sigourney Weaver and Robert De Niro, Grand Piano by Eugenio Mira scripted by Damien Chazelle and starring Elijah Wood and John Cusack, Blackwood by Rodrigo Cortés starring Anna Sophia Robb and Uma Thurman, The Baztan trilogy directed by Fernando González Molina, Paradise Hills by Alice Waddington or the miniseries The Minions of Midas by Mateo Gil. In 2021 it released Love Gets a Room, by Rodrigo Cortés to great critical acclaim and the hit Through My Window, on Netflix, which managed to be the third most watched non-English language film in its first 28 days. Currently working on the Spanish spin-off postproduction of the acclaimed Netflix film Bird Box and shooting the sequel to Through My Window -titled A través del mar-, as well as the preproduction of Rich flu the new film by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia (The Platform), starring Rosamund Pike and Daniel Brühl. The series Santo, by creator Carlos López for Netflix and the awaited Los renglones torcidosde Dios by Oriol Paulo are pending release. The company's productions have participated in major world festivals such as Sundance, Toronto, San Sebastian and Venice and have received 18 nominations for the Goya, Forqué, Sant Jordi and Méliés awards, among others.
Raquel Gomez
Originals Publicity - Series | Spain & Portugal
raquelg@netflix.com