Autumn is starting and streaming platforms are starting to announce their series and movie premieres. Netflix has just surprised everyone by announcing its upcoming Spanish film projects at the San Sebastian Film Festival: The Black Widow and firewall. These two fictions were produced respectively by Ramón Campos (Producciones Bambú) and Anxo Rodríguez and Ferrán Tomás (ESpotlight Media). the film The Black Widow It will be based on the famous Patraix crime in which an engineer was murdered by Maje, his wife and one of the young woman’s lovers, a nurse in a private hospital. His lifeless body was found face down in a garage on Calamocha Street, in the Patraix neighborhood, and the investigation finally allowed the identification of his wife and one of his lovers. One of the crimes that most shocked public opinion in our country.
the movie The Black Widow It will be directed by Carlos Sedes (Father Casares and missing wife) and included Ramón Campos, the famous producer of Bambú television series as The Cable Girls, Gran Hotel, Velvet, Fariña, The Asunta Affair, La Promesa and documentary The Alcasser affair. It must be taken into account that this type of fiction based on true crimes has had a lot of impact on Netflix because The crime of the city guard and the two parts of the anthology Monsters: Dahmler and with The Story of Lyle and Erik Menendez.
Also, one of the true crime series on Netflix The Asunta case has become one of the three most viewed Spanish-language fictions in the world with the series Berlin and the movie The Snow Society in 2024. A trend that has been growing in recent years, as many fictions about real crimes that have impacted society have been broadcast.
The controversial crime of the Patraix
The lifeless body of Antonio Navarro Cerdán, a 35-year-old manwas found face down in a garage located at 18 Calamocha Street, in the Patraix neighborhood. The man’s body had been stabbed 7 times. When the police ruled out the robbery as a motive, they began to focus their investigations on the victim’s surroundings. Officers from the Homicide Group of the National Police of Valencia began to speculate that the perpetrator(s) of the crime were waiting for him in the garage.
On November 8, 2017, police intercepted a telephone conversation between the two suspects: his widow, María Jesús Moreno Cantó, also known as “Maje”a nurse by profession whom he had married a year earlier, and one of his colleagues, Salvador Rodrigo Lapiedra. The two suspects were arrested on January 12, 2018, for murder.
The case shocked society to the point that it is still remembered and that many Netflix users will be very interested in the reconstruction of this case, as happened with the crime of the urban guard. During the investigation, Maje’s infidelities before her marriage, her husband’s forgiveness and all the lies of the accused couple were revealed. The police carried out telephone tapping for two months until they arrested the couple. The Maje case, as the Patraix case was also called, filled pages and pages of newspapers and hours of television programs.
In 2020, the trial took place in Valencia and the parties were presented before the jury. a total of 51 witnesses and 14 expertsAmong them were 28 police officers, two civil guards, two forensic experts, two psychiatrists and a psychologist. More than 50 documentary evidences were also provided, including wiretapping recordings. The Provincial Court of Valencia sentenced María Jesús Moreno Cantó, better known as Maje, and her ex-lover Salvador Rodrigo Lapiedra to 22 and 17 years in prison, respectively. The film Black Widow will try to explain all the details of this case.
The psychological thriller Firewall
the movie Firewall directed by David Victori (you shall not kill And The pact) is the other project announced by Netflix Filming will begin in a few weeks. This film is a psychological thriller that tells the story of Mara, her daughter Lide, her brother Luis, her sister-in-law Elena and her son who, after the death of Mara’s husband, visit the summer house in the forest to prepare it for sale.
The aim of this visit was close this woman’s sorrowBut everything takes a turn for the worse when Mara’s daughter disappears while a fire ravages the mountain. Everything will change when Santi, the forest ranger, becomes the prime suspect in the disappearance. The film Cortafuego is produced by Anxo Rodríguez and Ferrán Tomás of ESpotlight Media and will star actors Joaquín Furriel, Belén Cuesta, Enric Auquer and Diana Gómez.
