La canción (2025)

“La Canción” tells the story, in a fiction series which takes in the main events: the enrolment of real life Artur Caps, an Austrian emigré but king of TVE’s variety shows, to choose the song; the choice of Joan Manuel Serrat, an icon of Catalan dissidence so symbol of Spanish modernity, to sing it; when Serrat pulls out, denied the right to sing “La, la, la” in Catalan, the desperate recourse to firebrand Massiel, who, despite little time to rehearse, pulls of a great performance at London’s Albert Hall. Caps’ wingman is the series’ protagonist Esteban, pig ignorant about music but driven by the initial dogged ambition of scaling posts in Franco’s government.