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Cande Lázaro’s ‘The Shepherdess,’ Resurrecting Famed Spanish Maqui Florenci Pla, Casts ‘Money Heist’s’ Alba Flores (EXCLUSIVE)
Singer actor La Dani and Julio Hu Chen, who have both scored Goya best new actor nominations, also join the key cast.
Alba Flores, Nairobi in “Money Heist,” and Spanish Academy Goya new actor nominees La Dani and Julio Hu Chen, are attached to star in Cande Lázaro’s “The Shepherdess,” a potential standout at this year’s Locarno Match Me! Transforming into a man – an identity he always wanted – he fought for 18 months, being stigmatized as a monster by Franco’s propaganda regime, a bogey woman, La Pastora, who ate children, according to popular legend. Captured and imprisoned from 1960 to 1977 for 29 murders carried out by the maquis before he joined them, Pla was liberated in 1977 as part of a general amnesty and taken in by the family of a prison guard.
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