Menem is a fiction drama based on real events that tells the story of a Rioja family whose life is linked to the president’s intimate circle Carlos Menem. The series is located in Argentina in the 90s, from the rise of Menem to power and the consequent economic convertibility to terrorist attacks in Buenos Aires. Menem is a history of power, political controversy and social tragedy.
Beyond being based on a real story, the series takes several licenses and clarifies that it is a fiction.
What characters are based on real characters in the Menem series
Within the presidential family, all the characters bear the names of their counterparts in reality: Leonardo Sbaraglia embodies a Carlos Saúl Menem, Griselda Siciliani to Zulema Yoma, Cumelén Sanz to ZULEMA MARÍA EVA (ZULEMITA) and Agustín Sullivan to Carlos Saúl Facundo.
Among the characters in politics Martín Campilongo (Campi) interprets a Domingo Cavallothe omnipresent Super Minister of Economics; Monica Antonopulos Transfer to screen A María Julia Alsogarayeven recreating the episode of the famous photo dressed only with a skin cover, although the photographer who portrays it in fiction did not exist: in real life it was Osvaldo Dubini who was behind the lens and that postcard that crossed generations.
EMIR AND AMIRA YOMA “Harmen of.” Zulema– They appear under the skins of Alberto Ajaka and Violeta Urtizberea. Osvaldo Djeredjian gives voice and gestures to Bernardo Neustadtkey figure of political journalism. From the radical side, affected by the recession and the social crisis, the anticipated transfer of command to Carlos Menem It is shown in a tense scene: Fernán Mirás is Raúl Alfonsín. For its part, the role of Eduardo Duhalde remains in the hands of Sebastián Almada.
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What are the invented characters of the Menem series
Juan Minujín, like Olegario Salas, plays a fictional photographer whose look travels through the story And he tells her, next to his family (Jorgelina Auzzi like Amanda and Valentín Wein as Miguel). Marco Antonio Caponi (Gerónimo Ayala) and Guillermo Arango (Silverman) also make up names of invented advisors.
Candela Vetrano interpret a Victorya research journalist designed from real figures of journalism, but built as fiction; The same goes for Sandra, a vedette who gives life Virginia Gallardowho anyway is inspired by authentic episodes, like that famous photo of Amalia Yuyito González Sitting on the former president’s legs.
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