El tiempo entre costuras
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| Based on | El tiempo entre costuras by María Dueñas |
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| Country of origin | Spain |
| Original language(s) | Spanish |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 17 |
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| Editor(s) | Ángel Armada |
| Running time | 70 minutes approx. |
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| Original network | Antena 3 |
| Original release | October 21, 2013 – January 20, 2014 |
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El tiempo entre costuras (The Time Between Seams) is a Spanish period drama television series produced by Boomerang TV for Antena 3. It is an adaptation of the same-titled novel by María Dueñas, published in English language under the titles The Time in Between and The Seamstress. It premiered on October 21, 2013 on Antena 3. The premiere was seen by 5.018 million people, making it the most watched premiere on Antena 3 in 12 years.[1][2]
Plot
The story begins in 1934. Between Youth and Adulthood… Sira Quiroga is a young seamstress from a traditional neighbourhood of Madrid who works with her mother Dolores in the haute couture workshop of Doña Manuela. At age twelve, Sira sweeps the atelier floors where her single mother works as a seamstress. At fourteen, she quietly begins her own apprenticeship. By her early twenties she has learned the ropes of the business and is engaged to a modest government clerk. But everything changes when two men burst unexpectedly into her neatly mapped-out life: an attractive salesman and the father she never knew.
Sira meets and falls madly in love with Ramiro Arribas. Despite her mother's disapproval, Sira decides to break off her engagement with Ignacio. Dolores then brings Sira to meet her father at her father's request. At the meeting, Sira learns that her mother broke off relations with her father after becoming pregnant by him because she knew that his upper-class family would never approve of her and she refused to become his mistress. Sira's father has become concerned about the security of his wealth due to instability in the country and gives jewelry and money to Sira to keep for him. Ramiro persuades Sira to use the money to start a business with him overseas. With the Spanish Civil War brewing in Madrid, Sira leaves Madrid months before the Spanish coup of July 1936 and travels with Ramiro to the Tangier International Zone. In the beginning of their stay in the city, everything runs smoothly, but things change when Ramiro begins to drink heavily and squander the money from her father. After Sira becomes pregnant, Ramiro abandons her taking the remaining money and jewelry, and Sira is forced to flee Tangier due to the debt that they have incurred at the hotel there. Sira loses the baby on a bus trip to Tétouan, the capital of the Spanish Protectorate of Morocco, and finds herself abandoned, penniless, and heartbroken in an exotic land. The policy of the protectorate and the debts she owes prevent her from going back to Spain and she is detained in the guesthouse of Candelaria "La Matutera", who discovers her talent for sewing and helps her establish a haute couture dress shop, financed shadily. Sira reinvents herself by turning to the one skill that can save her: her gift for creating beautiful clothes.
As England, Germany, and the other great powers launch into the dire conflict of World War II, Sira is persuaded to return to Madrid, where she takes on a new identity to embark upon the most dangerous undertaking of her career. Thanks to her workshop, Sira meets relevant personalities like Juan Luis Beigbeder, the High Commissioner of the Protectorate; Beigbeder's mistress Rosalinda Fox, who becomes a close friend to Sira; Ramón Serrano Suñer, Francisco Franco's brother-in-law; or Alan Hillgarth, the chief of the British intelligence services in Spain. Such personalities impel Sira to get involved in espionage, using the skills of her trade for more dangerous tasks. As the preeminent couturier for an eager clientele of Nazi officers' wives, Sira becomes embroiled in the half-lit world of espionage and political conspiracy rife with love, intrigue, and betrayal.
Production
The series was filmed in various locations in Spain, Morocco and Portugal. María Dueñas' original novel is set in Madrid, Tangier, Tétouan and Lisbon. Most of scenes in the series were filmed in these cities. Some of the scenes were filmed in Guadalajara and Toledo in Spain, and Estoril and Cascais in Portugal. The budget was estimated in over 500,000 euros per episode.[3]
Cast and characters
- Adriana Ugarte as Sira Quiroga aka Sira Alvarado Quiroga aka Arish Agoriuq
- Elvira Mínguez as Dolores Quiroga
- Raúl Arévalo as Ignacio
- Tristán Ulloa as Juan Luis Beigbeder
- Hannah New as Rosalinda Fox
- Peter Vives as Marcus Logan
- Carlos Santos as Félix Aranda
- Francesc Garrido as Claudio Vázquez
- Filipe Duarte as Manuel Da Silva
- Mari Carmen Sánchez as Candelaria "La Matutera"
- Rubén Cortada as Ramiro Arribas
- Carlos Serrano as Ramiro Arribas (voice)
- Pepa Rus as Paquita
- Elena Irureta as Doña Manolita
- Alba Flores as Jamila
- Carlos Olalla as Gonzalo Alvarado
- Ben Temple as Alan Hillgarth
- David Muro as Palomares
- Jimmy Shaw as Peter Fox
- Enrique Arce as Andrés
- Aurora Maestre as Doña Encarna
- Ángela Romanillos as Sira Quiroga (child)
List of episodes
| Total | Title | Director | Air date | Mill. of viewers (share) |
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| 1 | "Amor y otras verdades" | Iñaki Mercero | October 21, 2013 | 5.018 (25.5%) |
| 2 | "El camino más difícil" | Iñaki Mercero | October 28, 2013 | 5.103 (26.9%) |
| 3 | "La felicidad de unos cuantos" | Iñaki Mercero | November 4, 2013 | 5.093 (26.2%) |
| 4 | "Escrito en las estrellas" | Iñaki Peñafiel | November 11, 2013 | 4.803 (24.6%) |
| 5 | "El sol siempre vuelve a salir" | Iñaki Peñafiel | November 18, 2013 | 4.688 (24.7%) |
| 6 | "Espionaje" | Iñaki Peñafiel | November 25, 2013 | 4.733 (25.4%) |
| 7 | "Un refugio en mitad de la tormenta" | Norberto López Amado | December 2, 2013 | 4.455 (23.3%) |
| 8 | "El resto de nuestros días" | Norberto López Amado | December 9, 2013 | 4.687 (24.3%) |
| 9 | "Los fantasmas del pasado" | Iñaki Mercero | December 16, 2013 | 4.877 (26.5%) |
| 10 | "Los cuentos que no saben qué contar" | Iñaki Mercero | January 13, 2014 | 5.014 (25.2%) |
| 11 | "Regreso al ayer" | Norberto López Amado & Iñaki Mercero | January 20, 2014 | 5.536 (27.8%) |
International broadcast
The rights for El tiempo entre costuras were acquired in Italy by Canale 5; the series premiered in Italy on April 25, 2014 as Il tempo del coraggio e dell'amore (The Time of Courage and Love) and aired with an average of 3.4 million viewers (14% share).[4] In Portugal, the series aired on TVI. In Japan, the series premiered in June 2015 on NHK General TV as Jonetsu no Shira (Sira's Passion). The rights for the series have also been acquired in China (CCTV-8), Taiwan (PTS), Hungary (MTVA), Croatia (RTL Televizija) or Chile (TVN), among others.[5]
This series is also available on Netflix and Hulu in the USA on their streaming services.[6]
References
- ↑ Antena 3 estrena 'El tiempo entre costuras' el próximo lunes, contra 'La voz' e 'Isabel'
- ↑ Antena 3 estrena 'El tiempo entre costuras', una serie de punto y aparte
- ↑ Más de medio millón de euros por capítulo
- ↑ Averga ratings in Italy. Vertele.com
- ↑ 'El tiempo entre costuras' se emitirá en junio en la televisión pública japonesa. FormulaTV.com
- ↑ Review: Spanish Drama 'The Time in Between' Will Cure Your Hankering for 'Downton Abbey' Indiewire. July 3, 2014