"Roman Spain" - an excellent series for those who are tired of waiting for the new season of "Games of Thrones"

The series "Roman Spain, the legend" the legend went outon the screens from 2010 to 2012, only 20 series were shown, divided into 3 seasons. If in the homeland the show got a deafening success, then outside of Spain few people heard about it and it was very vain. On the scale of filming it is certainly not the "Game of Thrones", but a very good historical drama, for the filming of which (in different stages), answered eight directors! Including Jorge Sanchez-Cabezudo, in the filmography of which the series "Grand Hotel".

Plot

"Roman Spain" is, first of all,historical drama, it is based on many real facts. The plot line of the series is built on the events that occurred in the II century BC, when the inhabitants of Lusitania - a small ancient Roman province (now these lands belong to Portugal) are trying to resist the invaders from Rome. If Gaius Julius Caesar took just five years to conquer Gaul, then the conquest of Lusitania took from the Romans almost two hundred.

In the center of the narrative, the Roman Emperor Lucius Commodus, it was his impulsive, ill-considered decisions that had a great influence on the decline and the further collapse of the entire Roman Empire.

The first series begins with the death of Father Commodus -Marcus Aurelius. Despite the fact that the wars he started with the Germanic tribes were almost completed in favor of the empire, the death of Aurelius and the first weeks of Commodus's rule all radically change. Having proclaimed himself the successor of the emperor, he begins to build a kingdom of debauchery, blood and excesses, thus destroying the greatness of Rome.

Creature

All the seasons of "Roman Spain" were shot in the westcountry in the province of Cáceres. Local landscapes, so similar to the historical ones, helped to give naturalness to filming. Thanks to the huge budget, unlike other Spanish serials, this is thought through to the smallest details: clothes, props, make-up artists. For some scenes even special decorations were erected.

Thanks to this, the series "Roman Spain" was accepted by the public very well. Each series was watched by about 4 million people.

Errors and Inaccuracies

Creators in their narrative failedavoid historical errors. For example, at that time the equestrian Roman army did not wear a red uniform and did not use stirrups. In response to these comments, the producer of the series said that this was done deliberately: the stirrups guaranteed additional security to the actors during filming, and the red color in the clothes increased the recognizability of the characters.

Another fact that people like to pick oncritics are characters. In "Roman Spain" the heroes are called Helena, although this is a Greek name, Darius is Persian, Sandro is a medieval Italian. But the producer has an answer to this. According to the study, real ancient Roman and ancient Spanish names, such as Tuto or Likino, are very poorly remembered by spectators.

Well, and, of course, the most obvious mistake: in the series, some of the characters call themselves "hispanos" (Latinos), although at that time they could not possibly know about such territorial affiliation.

Actors

In the leading roles of "Roman Spain" a lot ofexcellent actors, the first number on this list is undoubtedly Luis Omar in the role of praetor Galba, who played in the movie "Broken embryos." Pleases the eye and the presence on the screen of talented Natalie Pose ("Lex", "All Women") as Galba's wife. On the "Spanish side" Roberto Henriquez, known for the film "The essence of power," and Juan Jose Balesta of "El Bol"

Men will really like the beautiful Ana de Armas,and for women, one of the most prominent male actors of the Spanish cinema world - Jesus Olmedo, in the filmography of which more than ten paintings, including "Lola."

For those who are tired of Hollywood, but miss the "Game of Thrones", "Roman Spain" will like. Let not such a large-scale, but colorful and historically practically true in everything.