

A prime minister walks into an ambush. The case? Never cracked. The tea? Still scalding.
Madrid, Spain, December 27, 1870. General Juan Prim i Prats, president of the Council of Ministers and Minister of War gets involved in a treacherous ambush, is mortal injured and dies three days later. A mystery, a conspiracy, a murder that was never solved.
Production
Lavish 1870s Madrid recreation, all gaslight and political rot
Acting
Orella's Prim: charismatic, doomed, absolutely aware of it

Director
Miguel Bardem
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Prim's death literally changed Spain: no king meant the brief First Republic and decades of instability. This isn't just murder, it's alternate-history fuel.
The 'Calle del Turco' was demolished in 1910; the film's location work required rebuilding a ghost street from archival photographs and Galdós's own descriptions.
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