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08/02/2022 | Press release | Archived content

Netflix presents the first preview for Santo. Release on September 16 →

Starring Raúl Arévalo, Bruno Gagliasso, Victoria Guerra and Greta Fernández

Netflix announced today the release ofSantoforSeptember 16, the first Spanish fiction filmed between Spain and Brazil, produced by Nostromo Pictures for Netflix.

Created by Carlos López(Hache, El príncipe, La embajada) and directed by Vicente Amorim(A Divisão, Romance Policial: Espinosa, Copa Hotel), Santois a thrilling police series, a thriller of action and intrigue that at times comes close to horror. It tells the story of Santo, a drug trafficker whose face has never been revealed. Two cops who are after him, Cardona (Bruno Gagliasso) and Millán (Raúl Arévalo), radically opposed, will have to learn to work together to solve the case and keep their lives safe.

StarringRaúl Arévalo(Antidisturbios, The Fury of a Patient Man, Black Beach) and Bruno Gagliasso(O Sétimo Guardião, Rising Sun, Ambitious Women). Victoria Guerra(Auga seca, 3 mulheres), Greta Fernández(Elisa & Marcela, A Thief's Daughter), Luiz Felipe Lucas(Jailers, Confissões Médicas) and María Vázquez(Eye for an Eye, María y los demás) complete the cast.

About Nostromo Pictures:

NOSTROMO PICTURES, founded in 2010, has produced more than 20 national and international feature films including Palm Trees in the Snowby Fernando González Molina, Red Lights by Rodrigo Cortés starring Cillian Murphy, Sigourney Weaver and Robert De Niro, Grand Piano by Eugenio Mira scripted by Damien Chazelle and starring Elijah Wood and John Cusack, Blackwood by Rodrigo Cortés starring Anna Sophia Robb and Uma Thurman, The Baztan trilogydirected by Fernando González Molina, Paradise Hills by Alice Waddington or the miniseries The Minions of Midasby Mateo Gil. In 2021 it released Love Gets a Room, by Rodrigo Cortés to great critical acclaim and the hit Through My Window, on Netflix, which managed to be the third most watched non-English language film in its first 28 days. Currently working on the Spanish spin-off postproduction of the acclaimed Netflix film Bird Boxand shooting the sequel to Through My Window-titled A través del mar-, as well as the preproduction of Rich fluthe new film by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia (The Platform), starring Rosamund Pike and Daniel Brühl. The series Santo, by creator Carlos López for Netflix and the awaited Los renglones torcidosde Diosby Oriol Paulo are pending release.

The company's productions have participated in major world festivals such as Sundance, Toronto, San Sebastian and Venice and have received 18 nominations for the Goya, Forqué, Sant Jordi and Méliés awards, among others.