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, Marcel Borràs,

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, and Nuria González. It was released by

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in May 2018.

Premises

The fiction spans along 16 years, with each episode respectively set in 1996, 2004, 2008 and 2012. Starting in 1996 post-Olympic

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, the plot focuses on Jacobo Vidal—an authoritarian, obsessive and dysfunctional ''

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''—and his developing relationship with his children, Tomás and Valeria. While the depicted family members in the series are largely Spanish-speaking, they sometimes interact with other characters in Catalan too.

Cast

as Jacobo Vidal. *

as Isabel. * as Tomás. *

as Valeria. *

as Iván. * Nuria González as Mireia.

Production and release

Directed by

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, she wrote the screenplay together with Valentina Viso and Diego Vega. Entirely shot in

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, production crew worked in the surroundings of

, namely in Font Vella de . ''Matar al padre'' was pre-screened on 18 April 2018 at the 21st

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. Consisting of 4 episodes with a running time of around 50 minutes, the miniseries was fully released by

on 25 May 2018.

References

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