netflix prepares ‘The Asunta case’ with Candela Peña and Tristán Ulloa as protagonists. The series completes the catalog of the Spanish true crime genre of the platform in which we will soon see ‘The body on fire’ about the crime of the Urban Guard with Úrsula Corberó and Quim Gutiérrez. In addition, in the documentary category will arrive on June 9 also a series about the deck murderer and, although it has not been announced, it would be in the production phase another on the death of Mario Biondowhich will not be without controversy.
Candela Peña, the leading actress in series like ‘Hierro’, has posted on Instagram a photo of himself characterized as Rosario Porto with which she makes her interpretation of the mother who murdered her 12-year-old daughter Asunta official with the help of her husband Alfonso Basterra (Tristán Ulloa). “It’s official,” writes the actress next to the photo. And she adds: “I am ROSARIO PORTO. I am a woman with fear. I am HAPPY”. in post thanks both Netflix and Bambú Producciones and Ramón Campos for the opportunity, screenwriter and creator of fiction. Next to her, Tristán Ulloa, whom we have seen in ‘The Snow Girl’ and which is part of the new band from ‘Berlin’will be the one who gives life to the journalist Alfonso Basterra, Asunta’s father and guilty of her murder as determined in the trial held in 2015.
behind the fiction is Bambú Producciones with Ramón Campos in charge as executive producerwho already worked in the docuseries on the Asunta case that can be seen in ATRESplayer PREMIUM. “At Bambú Producciones we are looking forward to this new fiction project together with Netflix,” she assured. Campos also explains that the project arises from the “documentary research process in which a lot of material was collected that could not finally be included and that will be in the series.” The producer is also shown delighted to work with Tristán Ulloa, with whom he already met in ‘Farina’and also to “receive Candela Peña in Bambú”, whose work he has declared himself a “fan for many years”.
This was the Asunta case, in reality
One day after Rosario Porto and Alfonso Basterra reported the disappearance of their adoptive daughter Asunta, The lifeless body of the 12-year-old girl appeared on a forest track from the Galician town of Teo on September 22, 2013. The couple, who had adopted the little girl at just one year old, quickly became suspects in the murder of their own daughter. The arrest of each of them occurred barely a day apart, on September 24 and 25. The presence of large amounts of anxiolytic in the girl’s blood and the similarity of strings found on a property in Rosario Porto with which they were used to tie the body of the girl and the Computer tampering and a second father’s phone were the indications that led to the arrest of the parents.
The trial began in October 2015 and, barely a month later, the popular jury found the defendants guilty of the murder of Asunta Basterra. The sentence was 18 years in prison for each of the parents for the crime of murder with kinship aggravation. On November 18, 2020, Rosario Porto was found dead by hanging in the Brieva prison cell (Ávila), where he was serving his sentence.
