Starts the pre-production of Breathless, Carlos Montero's new series for Netflix starring Najwa Nimri, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Blanca Suarez and Manu Rios

Netflix has announced today the start of pre-production of a new series created by Carlos Montero (Elite, In love all over again). This new project produced by El Desorden Crea will be set in the daily life of a hospital located in Valencia.

The main cast of Breathless is made up of Najwa Nimri (Money Heist, Holy Family), Aitana Sánchez Gijón (Parallel Mothers, The Boss), Blanca Suárez (Cable Girls, Jaguar), Manu Ríos (Élite, Muted), Borja Luna (Untameable, No Traces), Ana Rayo (Mercado Central, Madres. Amor y vida) and Alfonso Bassave (Estoy vivo, Riot Police). The cast is completed by Macarena de Rueda (Matriz), Blanca Martínez (In Love All Over Again), Abril Zamora (The Mess You Lived Behind), Xoán Fórneas (Heridas), Marwa Bakhat and Víctor Sáinz.

Biel is one of the residents who has been working in a public hospital for several months. Hundreds of shifts, thousands of hours, which barely leave him time for his life. But it is his vocation and he is willing to do whatever it takes to become the best doctor. What he does not imagine is that a total strike will break out in the hospital, with no minimum services. The doctors are forced to do this to try to raise public awareness of their essential work and to protest against all the intolerable cuts that the public health system is suffering. But Biel and the other residents do not know whether to go along with this strike that could have fatal consequences for patients. And from this conflict we will get to know each of them in their day to day life: who are these young people who go out of their way in the hospital, assuming excessive responsibility, and who are these adults willing to lose everything in order to fight for what they believe in?

"With Breathless we want to recover the great hospital dramas but with a fiercely contemporary perspective that we will take to the limit," says Carlos Montero, creator of the series. "We believe that it is the perfect time to defend the almost heroic work of our healthcare workers, to tell of their dedication, their frustrations, their joys and to know that despite everything, they continue to look after us. Even if they have to go on an unprecedented strike to do so”.

About El Desorden Crea

El Desorden Crea is a production company founded by Carlos Montero who has been writing stories for more than twenty years. Carlos has created series such as Physics or Chemistry, The Mess You Lived Behind and Élite. The production company was born from the desire to bring to fruition all the ideas that deserve to be told. In this new adventure he is accompanied by Diego Betancor, executive producer of Élite. Respira will be the second production of El Desorden Crea after In Love All Over Again.

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