Dime Quién Soy: Mistress of War

A finely crafted series, well performed and deservedly to see it. It starts in Madrid 1988, a man named Albert James : Will Keen leaves a biography on the desk of a publisher. Along the way a long flaskback concerning the starring, Amelia Garayoa : Irene Escolar . Amelia will take a long and risked adventure, beginning in the thunderous Republican Madrid 1934. Amelia is forced a marriage to a stiff-upper-lip man named Santiago : Pablo Derqui, and early they have a first-born baby. But then Amelia meets Pierre Comte : Oriol Pla, an impulsive and handsome French/Russian journalist but he is actually a fervent communist and Stalin agent. Then Amelia falls in love for him, leaves her family : husband , new-born son and accompanies Comte to Buenos Aires where she meets her best friend, Carla Alessandrini : Maria Pia Calzone. As Amelia undertakes a dangerous adventure with life-changing experiences every step of the way including several cities in the world : Buenos Aires, Moscow , London, Rome, Paris, Berlin and finally completing a circle she goes back home to Madrid.

A stirring and romantic series with dramatic events, thrills, emotion, betrayal and love stories. There are numerous historical remarks about Spanish republic, Stalinist period and Nazi time. Interpretations are uniformly decent. The series is very nice set, luxurious cinematography, great production design and glamorous costumes. Stars Irene Escolar as a stubborn young woman who both, love and sheer lust for adventure undertakes an overseas journey and eventually working as a spy for a noble cause . Oriol Pla as the astute communist reporter who falls in distress is pretty fine. Maria Pia Calzone plays stunningly an Opera Diva who takes Amelia under her wing becoming the young Spanish woman's subrrogate mother. While Pablo Derqui is adequate as her serious and wealthy husband.

The series was competenly directed by Eduard Cortes and inspiring by historical events. He had budget enough thanks to Movie Star that financed lavishly. Eduard is a good craftsman with a long career , his film debut was Nobody's life with Jose Coronad. He has an extensive experience in the world of television as TVE as TV3 regional channel directing a lot of series such as : Merli, Angel y demonio, Hay alguien ahi, Psico express, Sitges, Rosa, Quico, Secretos de famiia. And directing some feature films as Ingrid, Otros dias vendran, La Caverna, Atraco and his biggest hit : Los Pelayo.