'Sea of ​​sand': Star Line will film a miniseries scripted by Vázquez Figueroa

Star Line will film in Morocco the television miniseries 'Mar de Arena', a script by Alberto Vázquez Figueroa about the kidnappings of tourists and aid workers in the Sahara.

As so many times, reality surpasses fiction… or it is simply on its heels. This is the case of Mar de arena, the next production that Star Line, led by Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa, is preparing for television.

Based on the old Bedouin proverb, Vázquez-Figueroa has been writing, for a few months, the script for a miniseries based on the frequent kidnappings of aid workers and tourists in the Sahara Desert, a topic that, unfortunately, is very topical in our country after the kidnapping of the three Spanish aid workers.

Vázquez-Figueroa, the only Spanish writer who has sold twenty-five million copies of his books in more than thirty languages, is a great connoisseur of Africa, a continent in which he has lived for more than 20 years, and especially of the desert.

Many of his novels have given rise to important film productions, such as Ashanti (directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Michael Caine, Peter Ustinov and Omar Sharif and William Holden), Tuareg (by Enzo Castillari) or El Perro (by Antonio Isasi) and numerous television series such as “Océano”, with Irene Papas and Marisa Berenson.

Filming in Spain and Morocco

The miniseries will be filmed in Spain and Morocco at the end of next spring. The production, which is carried out by Star Line, will have the collaboration of the neighboring country and although the director and the main casting have not yet been determined, the cast will be completed with numerous Moroccan actors.

Star Line is responsible for such successful television series as At eleven at home o Ana and the 7 and numerous films such as Carmen by Vicente Aranda, Blind y Absent de Daniel Calparsoro o Puppy by Miguel Albaladejo.