French television adapts the novel ‘All this I will give you’ by Dolores Redondo to a series

Filming began on March 20. the new series on France Télévisions, French public television, which is the adaptation of ‘I will give you all this’, the novel by Dolores Redondo, winner of the Planeta Award in 2016 and which has been translated into more than 20 languages.

Filming will last until early June. Its main location will be the Château de Valmousse, near Aix-en-Provence, in the Bouches du Rhône region and about 30 kilometers north of the city of Marseille. Despite the adaptation in the neighboring country, the story could have a version in Spain, as the author acknowledges.. “There are many readers of this novel in France and the similarities of the territory have allowed this adaptation. It is not at all frequent that foreign novels are adapted in other countries, I feel very honored with this. On the other hand, we continue working in Spain with the original project of ‘All this I will give you’ that will be shot in Ribeira Sacra“.

The adaptation of the novel will have six chapters of 52 minutes and has had several changes to move it from the original Ribeira Sacra of Galicia to this other wine-growing area of ​​France. This work has been the work of the scriptwriters Pascal Fontanille, Françoise Charpiat and Karine Lollichon. The series is directed by Nicolas Guicheteau.

The actor David Kammenos plays the protagonist, the writer Manuel Ortigosa (one of the few characters who keep the original name of Redondo’s novel). The cast is completed, among others, by Bruno Solo, Nicole Calfan, Louise Monot and Mélanie Maudran.

The plot of the novel is set in the Ribeira Sacra. Álvaro suffers an accident that ends his life. When Manuel, her husband, arrives in Galicia to examine the body, she discovers that the investigation into the case has been closed too quickly. The rejection of his powerful political family, the Muñiz de Dávila, prompted him to flee but he was held back by the allegation against impunity that Nogueira, a retired civil guard, wields against Álvaro’s family, noblemen rocked by their privileges, and the suspicion of that this is not the first death in his environment that has been masked as accidental. Lucas, a childhood friend of Álvaro’s priest, joins Manuel and Nogueira in reconstructing the secret life of whom they thought they knew well.

The unexpected friendship of these three men without any apparent affinity helps Manuel navigate between love for who was her husband and the torment of having lived with her back to reality, shielded behind the chimera of her writer’s world. Thus, he will begin the search for the truth, in a place of strong beliefs and deep-rooted customs in which logic never ends to tie all the loose ends.

Dolores Redondo (Donostia-San Sebastián, 1969) She is the author of the Baztán Trilogy, the most important literary phenomenon in Spanish in recent years.. The three deliveries, The invisible guardian’, ‘Legacy in the bones’ and ‘Offering to the storm’have reached three million readers and between 2017 and 2020 they had the three film adaptations, which are currently available on Netflix. The trilogy was followed by titles such as ‘All this I will give you’ (Planeta Award 2016). In 2019 he published ‘The North Face of the Heart’ and returned to the Baztán universe, whose adaptation is in the process of being developed as a television series in Hollywood, which constitutes a milestone in contemporary Spanish fiction. In 2021, ‘The privileges of the angel’, his first novel, was reissued. His latest novel is ‘Waiting for the flood’, published in 2022.