El Marginal
| El Marginal | |
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| Genre | Police procedural |
| Created by |
Sebastián Ortega Adrián Caetano |
| Written by | Adrián Caetano Guillermo Salmerón Silvina Olschansky Nicolás Marina |
| Directed by |
Luis Ortega Mariano Ardanaz Javier Pérez Alejandro Ciancio |
| Starring | Juan Minujín |
| Theme music composer | Sara Hebe |
| Opening theme | El Marginal |
| Country of origin | Argentina |
| Original language(s) | Spanish |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
| Production company(s) | Underground producciones |
| Release | |
| Original network | Televisión Pública Argentina |
| Original release | June 2, 2016 |
El Marginal was a 2016 Argentine miniseries, starred by Juan Minujín and Martina Gusmán. It received the Golden Martín Fierro award in 2017.
The former cop Miguel Palacios (Juan Minujín) is jailed at San Onofre, under a fake name and a fake judicial case. His mission is to infiltrate a criminal gang of prisoners and prison guards, and gather information about the daughter of a judge kidnapped by said gang. He eventually lost his links with those aware of his mission, and escapes from prison to recover his identity.
The series was initially aired at the Televisión Pública Argentina TV channel. It was acquired by Netflix after the end of the original run, becoming available for Latin America, the United States, the United Kingdom, Spain and Portugal. El Marginal and were the first Argentine TV series acquired by Netflix, in 2016.
A second season was confirmed in 2017.
The program received 8 nominations for the Martín Fierro Awards, and won those for best miniseries and best writers. One of the producers thanked for the award, but criticized the organization of the nominations, as they sometimes include TV programs from very disparate genres. Actor Gerardo Romano used his brief time to ask people to vote for Cristina Fernández de Kirchner at the 2017 legislative elections. At the end of the ceremony, the program received the Golden Martín Fierro Award.
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