‘Beguinas’, produced by Buendía Estudios, completes the cast and starts filming

The filming of ‘Beguinas’, the new original prime time series by Antena 3, has already started. The fiction will also be available on ATRESplayer PREMIUM.

The actors Amaia Aberasturi and Yon González will star in the fiction. They will play, respectively,  Lucía de Avellaneda and Telmo Medina, two young people who will overcome the social impositions of the time and who will risk everything for love in a context that is not favourable to them.

Bea Segura, Jaime Olías, Silma López, Ella Kweku, Melani Olivares, Lucía Caraballo, Meritxell Calvo, Laura Galán, Ignacio Montes, Antonio Durán ‘Morris’, Jonás Berami, Javier Beltrán, Carmen Esteban, Cristina Plazas and Elisabet Gelabert, among others, complete the cast of this fiction that will be filmed during the next weeks in locations of Madrid and Segovia.

‘Beguinas’, which will consist of ten episodes of 50 minutes each, is inspired in the beguinages, communities of women who, from the 13^th century onwards, defended an alternative way of life apart from marriage and the Church. The beguines were dedicated to contemplation, but also to action, through craft work, teaching or caring for the sick that brought benefits to society while allowing them to be self-sufficient. The beguinages were places of association and freedom that, despite having popular support, were highly questioned by power.

‘Beguinas’ takes as a reference the story of these women, which has remained hidden over the centuries.

‘Beguinas’ is a production by Atresmedia TV in collaboration with Buendía Estudios. Montse García, Sonia Martínez and Amparo Miralles are the executive producers of this fiction by the Series Atresmedia hallmark, that will be directed by Rómulo Aguillaume and Claudia Pinto.

The script will be overseen by Irene Rodríguez, Esther Morales, Silvia Arribas and Virginia Llera. Marta de Miguel is the Production Director, Iván Caso is the Cinematographer and Jorge de Soto the Art Director. Bubi Escobar will be the Costume Designer, whereas Makeup and Hairstyling will be directed by Mariló Serrano and Fermín Galán, respectively. Juan León is the Casting Director.

This is ‘Beguinas’

Segovia, 1559. Lucía de Avellaneda celebrates her engagement party with the Marquis of Peñarrosa, a nobleman chosen by her brother. This marriage promises to strengthen the financial and social status of the family, but, in the middle of the celebration, the fiancée receives an unexpected letter from a woman who claims to be her mother and asks her to come to her deathbed.

Lucía shows up in the beguinage, where her mother has summoned her. In this place, she lives with other women independently and apart from the Church.

The young woman opens up to a new world that will make her question everything she had known so far. In addition, she will know love through a pure and unstoppable passion, though forbidden. She will risk everything for Telmo, a Jewish man that must hide his beliefs and his past.