00:00The Supreme Court has just been taken over. Be aware, the situation is critical.
00:05On November 6, 1985, a commando unit from the M-19 guerrilla entered through the parking lot
00:11to the Palace of Justice, located in downtown Bogotá, and took more than
00:15300 people, including the Supreme Court justices.
00:21The following day, the National Army retook the Palace. The events of those two days left
00:26More than 100 people dead.
00:31The disappearance of 11 people was also confirmed over time.
00:36Their families searched for them during the following years.
00:3941 years later, these events have been brought to the screen in an 8-episode production
00:44from the Netflix platform. The series is the result of research by its creators.
00:49spanning nearly seven years, the project included documents, books, period reports, and interviews.
00:55to those who in some way lived through what is also called the Palace of Justice holocaust.
01:01In the miniseries, Robinson Díaz portrays the then-president of Colombia.
01:06Belisario Betancur Cuartas.
01:08What I discovered was a country that had slipped out of his control, that he couldn't govern. In other words,
01:17There were many factors at play. I say this humbly, with all due respect to Mr. Belisario Betancur,
01:24His family and everything. It's a tragicomedy. He had very good intentions.
01:32Santiago Alarcón plays Alfonso Reyes Echandía, the president of the Supreme Court of Justice
01:37and who called for a ceasefire by telephone.
01:40It's interesting because when people talk about Alfonso Reyes, they're talking about the president of the Court.
01:45But little is said about the father, the son, or what he went through. But the scripts do address it in some way.
01:52to show a King at home and a King at Court. And in that way,
01:58one more
01:59Who was this character in real life?
02:02The Bogota-born actor nominated for a Lemmy Award, Carlos Manuel Vezga, plays General Alfonso Plazas Vega.
02:07who led the military operation to retake the palace with tanks.
02:11Natalia Reyes is Pilar Navarrete, wife of one of those who disappeared during the events,
02:16Héctor Jaime Beltrán, who also sought justice and answers about what happened to her husband.
02:21It was very inspiring for me to meet Pilar and learn about her struggle. She's 41 years old, a woman who
02:30In a way, they were bound to lose. I think all the characters here,
02:34And in this series, which is so well written and so well constructed, we represent something more.
02:39Those names, those ID numbers, and those faces. We represent these women.
02:44single mothers who have lived through war, who have had to leave their children to the war,
02:50to the military, to the guerrillas. I truly believe that Pilar represents, as she says,
02:57She is a seeker. Luna Baxter is Olga Bejar, a journalist from that era who worked at the
03:03Then it was 24-hour news. In my case, I was able to speak with Olga, interview her, and get to know her humanity.
03:11As we said, we didn't even want the production; we wanted to replicate some characters. The idea isn't to create
03:17a documentary. When we met, I asked him, "How did you manage to put your life at risk in a moment..."
03:24so complex and so dangerous in our history? And he told me, no, it's just that I, I felt immortal,
03:31It's that I was immortal. And I think that was the phrase that allowed me, in my
03:37office, power,
03:40Yes, the one who was able to understand her as a human being.
03:43For his part, actor Andrés Castañeda plays Eduardo Umaña, a Colombian criminal lawyer and one of the
03:48main defenders of the families of the disappeared.
03:51It wasn't their personal struggles but a collective vision, a need, and a shared humanity's desire
03:57to give the other person a voice, strength, and tools, and to tell them it doesn't matter that you don't belong to one
04:05elite or to a specific place of privilege, but you deserve to have the rights and access
04:13to justice solely and exclusively because you are a human being.
04:17Mariana Gómez is Clara Enciso, alias Lamona, the only guerrilla who survived the takeover.
04:22I still have many questions that I would love to ask her if I had the chance.
04:28I couldn't resolve all my doubts to understand her, but I believe there's much more magic in the questions and
04:35Many times in the answers, and I think that's where I focused most on interpreting.
04:41Nicole Santamaría is the prosecutor Ángela María Buitrago who 20 years after the events
04:45He sought justice to find out what happened to the disappeared.
04:49Angela Maria, besides being a very busy woman, and just like she's always been, she
04:55has based it on the evidence,
04:56Tests, tests, this is also how I give them the information they have to get, absolutely everything is there.
05:03The series Palacio was mostly filmed in Bogotá on a set of more than 4,000 m2 whose
05:09Construction took more than three months, in addition to a 30-meter structure that recreates the facade
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