'The Sancho case' becomes a documentary series on HBO Max

The death of the Colombian doctor Edwin Arrieta in Thailand and the alleged involvement of Daniel Sancho, son of the popular Spanish actor Rodolfo Sancho, in August 2023 has been one of the crimes that has occupied the most hours of television in recent months. Just one day before the trial begins in Thailand, HBO Max has announced that it is immersed in the production of the series

a documentary that will delve into the case and the trial. The series will start this Tuesday, April 9, with

, the first of the four installments of which it will be composed and which will feature the unpublished testimony of Rodolfo Sancho. The rest of the chapters, according to the platform, will be released throughout 2024 once the trial has concluded.

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Cuarzo Producciones is responsible for this series that will try to show a complete account of the case based on the facts investigated and the testimony of people close to the investigation. “

will address one of the most high-profile cases in recent times with maximum journalistic rigor and offering unprecedented access to the people closest to the investigation,” says Alberto Carullo, vice president of Max's original local production for Spain and Italy. “Our goal is to document the entire process, from when the facts were known to the sentencing, taking into account the tremendous pain that this event has caused in so many people,” says Margarita Luis, executive producer of Cuarzo and director of the series.

Before going through the almost eight months of investigation since the event that dominated the media conversation occurred in the summer of 2023 in Spain, the series places the public in the present and moves to the island of Fuerteventura, where Rodolfo Sancho resides, to learn first-hand how the actor is experiencing everything that has happened since August 5, 2023, when his son's alleged involvement in the death of a man became known.

As highlighted in the HBO Max press release, this production differs from other

proposals in that it is being produced in real time. “

takes the viewer on a journey that pivots between the present, the past and the future, offering a contextualized and documented story that becomes more complex as the case progresses and whose end is not yet written,” he says. the platform. To do this, it uses testimonies from the closest environment of the victim and the person accused of the murder, as well as people involved in the investigation, analyzing each evidence, each proven fact and each scenario to reconstruct a case about which many questions still arise.

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