The Anatomy of a Moment

Alberto Rodríguez made his name with Marshland, the 2014 thriller that won ten Goyas, including Best Film and Best Director, and has since moved between cinema and Movistar Plus+, for which he made The Plague. The Anatomy of a Moment (Anatomía de un instante) adapts Javier Cercas's 2009 non-fiction book about the attempted coup of 23 February 1981, written by Rodríguez with his long-time collaborator Rafael Cobos and Fran Araújo. It had its world premiere at the San Sebastián International Film Festival in September 2025 and launched on Movistar Plus+ that November.

The starting point is a single image, recorded by the television cameras in the Congress of Deputies. Civil Guards under Antonio Tejero (David Lorente) burst in during a parliamentary vote, shots are fired and the deputies drop to the floor, except for three men: the outgoing prime minister Adolfo Suárez (Álvaro Morte), the Communist leader Santiago Carrillo (Eduard Fernández) and the deputy prime minister, General Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado (Manolo Solo). Across four episodes the series goes back through how each of them got there, with Raúl Arévalo narrating. It was shot in Alcalá de Henares, with Rodríguez's regular collaborators Álex Catalán on camera and Julio de la Rosa on the score.

It won Best Series at the Forqué Awards and the CEC Medals, competed at Series Mania in 2026 and is nominated for Best TV Movie or Miniseries at the International Emmys. TVE broadcast it free-to-air on 22 February 2026, the eve of the coup's 45th anniversary.