Honor, value, discipline and loyalty are the foundational values of the Military Naval School of Marín, the military institution with more than 300 years of history in which the future officers of the Spanish Navy are formed and where Princess Leonor currently studies. Located in the incomparable framework of the Pontevedra estuary, it will be the place where much of the plots of Marusia Winds of honorthe new fiction series of Mediaset Spain for the Prime Time from Telecinco, which will begin to be recorded next Monday, March 24 and will have Lucia Jiménez and Alfonso Bassave as protagonists. It is produced by Unicorn Content, a company owned by Ana Rosa Quintana.
Made in collaboration with Unicorn Content with the support of the Galician producer CTV, Marusia Winds of honor It is a creation of Ignacio del Moral (The Marquis, Mondays in the sun), Begoña Álvarez (Missing. The series, the marquis) and Laura Belloso (The boarding school, Luna, the mystery of Calenda). They complete the cast Miquel Fernández, Carmen de la Vega, Edith Martínez-Val, Paloma Stewart, Álex Medina, Darío Loureiro, Arwent Martínez, Iria Orejudo and Nacho Nugo, among other actors and actresses.
Ana Rosa Quintana and Princess Leonor.Advice of the Spanish Navy
Marusia Winds of honor It is the first television series that assumes the challenge of approaching the environment of the Spanish Navy, seeking, on the one hand, to offer a look that helps to know this unique and fascinating institution, its values, its functioning, the way of seeing the life of those who are part of it and its enormous ability to discipline and sacrifice; On the other, doing so through close, family and unique characters and a series of stories that combine rigor and respect with the necessary doses of drama, intrigue and emotion that fiction demands. To do this, the Spanish Navy provides advice in order for history to be plausible and realistic.
This is’ Marusia. Winds of honor ‘
The new course begins at the Marín Military School marked by the death of a student in the previous course. Officially, it is a suicide; Unofficially, many questions have been left unanswered. Teresa Ibarra (Lucia Jiménez), The newly appointed commander of the school, not only faces the consequences of the event, but also must investigate its causes. To do this, she is forced to collaborate with Lieutenant Colonel Jorge Carvajal (Alfonso Bassave), responsible for clarifying the facts, whose presence makes it revive traumatic memories and face internal conflicts that he thought he had left behind.
In parallel, Carmela (Paloma Stewart), Jahzara (Edith Martín-Val) and Renata (Carmen de la Vega), three young people from different social environments and with different motivations, enter the school willing to carve a future in the naval defense. There they will not only face academic difficulties and the rigid military hierarchy, but also to a demanding instruction and the psychological pressure that involves assuming values and behaviors very different from those of their previous life. To this are added the conflicts derived from their complex personal stories and their strong personalities.
Beyond the walls of the school, the people of Marín and the fishing community of the estuary will also have a presence in the plots. And both inside and outside the school, the sea will be the scene and witness of the stories and secrets of the characters, sometimes as a generous ally and others as an implacable enemy.
Princess Leonor upon arrival at Marín Military School. (EFE)The locations
Marusia Winds of honorwhose name evokes the Galician word that refers to the characteristic smell of the sea and algae when the tide goes down, will be recorded in various Marin scenarios such as its fish market, the port, locations for military activity on land and on the high seas and for naval competitions, as well as in emblematic places of the military naval school itself, such as the door of Carlos I, the military track, the courtyard of classrooms, the dining room, the dining room. of those available to school.
A majestic building managed by the University of Vigo in this town houses the offices of the officers, the classrooms, El Casino, the cameters of the candidates and guardians, the study areas and the training courtyards, among other locations. The series will also be recorded in other locations in the province of Pontevedra, both from the interior and the Baixas Rías.
Marusia Winds of honor It is one of the series beneficiaries of the aid for the realization of audiovisual shootings of the Xunta de Galicia, through the Galician axcence of Industrias Culturais, and is co -financed by the European Union. The main objective of these aid is to boost film and television shoots in Galicia to promote the value chain of the Galician audiovisual industry, improve its competitiveness, favor its sustainable growth, contribute to the maintenance of quality employment in the sector and position Galicia as a reference scenario for international shootings.
Unicorn and its passage to fiction
Since its fiction career began in 2021, Unicorn has produced, with very good results of criticism and audience, seasons 2 and 3 Missing. The series (Telecinco and Prime Video) and recently the El Marqués miniseries, released in Telecinco with great audience and criticism and positioned since its premiere among the three most watched titles in Prime Video.
Poster of the series ‘El Marqués’.Unicorn adapts for fiction stories connected to the present, an actuality that is part of the company’s DNA. Very special stories with complex and real protagonists that help us understand who we are as society and individuals. With the intention of exciting through the truth and showing all points of view to try to understand the genesis of some terrible facts that concern society.
Therefore, he is working on the development of a fiction series based on the novel Look at that girlwritten by Cristina Araújo Gámirwhich was awarded in 2022 with the Tusquets Publitors of Novel Award, unanimously by the jury. The work was selected as one of the best books of the year by Babelia/El País, the reading/the world and the mail, and awarded as the best first novel in Spanish at the Du Premier Roman Festival in Chambéry (France).
