A series in the same vein as La Casa de Papel has been available on Netflix for a few days. If you miss the Spanish series, you can take a look.
From 2017 to 2021, The House of Paper was a true cultural phenomenon. The story of these Spanish robbers disguised in Dali masks, who rob the Royal Mint and try to escape the police, has been a hit on Netflix. If you are missing a program of this type, perhaps you would like to take a look at this new series, put online on November 8, which has a few points in common with The House of Paper.
The main difference being that this new series, also Spanish, traces a real hostage situation. This took place at the Central Bank of Barcelona in May 1981. Nearly 300 people were sequestered in this building by eleven hooded men. The latter, however, did not demand money, but rather the release of soldiers involved in an aborted coup d’état which took place several months earlier, on February 23, 1981…
The five episodes of Operation Banco Central retrace in parallel the unfolding of the hostage-taking, but also an investigation carried out by journalists. The main point in common with The House of Paper lies in its casting, made up of several faces familiar to viewers of the heist series: Miguel Herran, who played Rio, Hovik Keuchkerian, who played Bogota, and Maria Pedraza, who played one of the hostages of The House of Papel.
Conversely, it is not the mechanism of the hostage taking and this spectacular heist which constitutes the real message at the heart ofOperation Banco Central. The series focuses more on drawing the portrait of a Spain in full reconstruction since the fall of the Franco dictatorship in the 1980s, and the fragility of this democracy which was then still in its infancy.
The five episodes ofOperation Banco Central have been available on Netflix since November 8, 2024. And if you are missing, you can also dive back into the 5 seasons of The House of Paperalso available on the streaming platform.