Sexual Revolution Pioneer Tale ‘Hildegart’ Wraps Production for Amazon Studios (EXCLUSIVE)
23.08.2023 - 11:29
/ variety.com
Pablo 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.
Prime Video has just shared a first look still in exclusivity with Variety which captures the film’s production ambitions, the period – Spain’s brief Republic of 1931-36 when it stood in the vanguard of Europe in social reform – and the movie’s production standards. Staring straight at the camera in cold disdain, Nimri’s body language is eloquent, that of a woman with an absolute certainty of the rightness of her life mission.