Chilean Fabulous and Spanish producer Alea Media announces the development of a series based on the novella Largo pétalo de mar by Isabel Allende. The project is in the development phase and is expected to reach 70% in Chile and another 30% in Spain by 2025.

“I was so enthusiastic that Isabel Allende, the most living secretary from Spain, allowed us to read this incredible story on the screen. We are working to secure the financing we need before the production penalty begins a year ago,” said Juan de Dios Larraín, CEO and producer of Fábula.

The story tells the life of the young doctor Víctor Dalmau, who left Barcelona with his pianist friend Roser Bruguera to go to Chile. A Bordo del Winnipega navigator of the poet Pablo Neruda, who drove more than two million Spanish people to Valparaíso, was caught on the bus through the country and in the freedom that he did not question in his country.

Alea, liderada por el Showrunner Aitor Gabilondo (Patria, Entrevias, El silencio), The responsibility for the development of the series lies with everyone Lead author Jose Luis Martin (The patients of Doctor García, El Cuerpo en Lamas) ya la guionista Carla Stagno (Los mil días de Allende, Pacto de sangre).

In this context, Gabilondo affirmed: “It is a common place to establish that the story of the Spanish refugees in Chile happened in reality more than 85 years ago, but it is also a real miracle.” Cambodia's numbers, Cambodia's Countries, but they had a Roser and a Victor who grappled with the world, experienced the horror and reconstructed his future.”

In return, Isabel Allende responded to the value of film and television in making the great problems of humanity visible: “It was the case that film had to take up much more time to make up for the difficult situation of disappointed people. Since he is as big as the screen, he can help people because he is a person who has been displaced and is the most tolerant towards migrants. The story of Víctor and Roser Dalmau is very similar to the many people who forced them to abandon their origins. “It is also a story of love, love and speech, eternal themes in literature and in life,” explained Isabel Allende, considering the contribution that film and television could generate in terms of visibility of the great problems of humanity.

At this point, Álvaro Cabello, producer of Fábula, explained: “The production is born in a constant historical past that draws back the Latin American specificity and in different times, in a specific territory and in the ability to evoke emotions all over the world, that is it.” caso de Largo pétalo de mar“.

Largo pétalo de mar se unirá a The house of spirit, love and darkness e Inés del alma míaIsabel Allende's other novels brought to the screen.