The series of Bruno Stagnaro and starring Ricardo Darín The chilling story of a Buenos Aires is transferred to the screen under an extraterrestrial threat and the struggle desperate for the survival of a group of common people. This is the first audiovisual adaptation of the Argentine science fiction graphic novel Héctor G. Oesterheldillustrated by Francisco Solano Lópezfirst published in 1957.
If you were hooked with its oppressive atmosphere, its moral dilemmas and the epic resistance against the unknown, here we present three series that share thematic and narrative elements that will surely captivate you.
The Rain (2018)
Six years after a rain carrier of a deadly dose virus to the population of Scandinavia, two brothers emerge from their bunker to find a devastated world. In their search for other survivors, they must face the dangers of a new social order and the dark secrets behind the catastrophe. The series explores survival in a hostile environment and complex human relations in a post -demo -religalptic world, central themes in the narrative of El Eternalauta.
Cast: Alba August, Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Lukas Løkken, Jessica Dinnage. Director: Jannik Tai Mosholt, Esben Toft Jacobsen, Christian Potalive.
The OA (2016)
After disappearing for seven years, Prairie Johnson returns home with new skills and a mysterious past. She begins to recruit a group of strangers to help her in a secret mission, telling them an incredible story about her captivity and possible alternative dimensions. The OA explores trauma issues, human connection and the search for meaning in the inexplicable, with a strong component of mystery and a feeling that there are realities beyond what we perceive, something that could resonate with the unknown nature of the threat in the eternal.
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Cast: Brit Marling, Emory Cohen, Scott Wilson, Phyllis Somerville, Alice Krige. Director: Zal Batmanglij.
Dark (2017)
When a child disappears in the small German city of Winden, dark secrets begin to reveal, connecting four families through mysterious time trips that extend for generations. The series explores temporary paradoxes, destiny and free will in a context of growing despair and the imminent threat of an apocalypse. Like the Eternaluta, Dark immerses you in a complex mystery with a constant sense of fatality and the struggle to understand forces that escape human control.
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Cast: Louis Hofmann, Oliver Masucci, Jördis Triebel, Andreas Piettschmann, Karoline Eichhorn. Director: Baran Bo Odar, Jantje Friese.
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