A new trailer has been released for «The Truce,» the first Kazakh-Spanish drama produced for Netflix. The film features actors from the Spanish hit series «Elite» as well as «Money Heist.»
The story is inspired by true events. During Stalin’s political purges, hundreds of Spanish prisoners were held alongside Kazakhs in the Karaganda Corrective Labor Camp (Karlag), one of the largest camps in the Soviet Gulag system. According to the filmmakers, the project was sparked by recently declassified archives that shed new light on this history.
In 2013, Kazakhstan transferred 152 archival files on Spanish prisoners to...