Agustín Díaz Yanes concludes the filming of 'Oro'

The film, based on an unpublished story by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, was filmed between Panama and Spain (Canary Islands, Andalusia and Madrid).

Inspired by the expedition of the 16th century Spanish conquistadors, Lope de Aguirre and Núñez de Balboa, Oro, the new work by director Agustín Díaz Yanes, based on an unpublished story by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, has completed filming that took place between Spain and Panama.

Díaz Yanes highlights that "based on a story by Arturo, of extraordinary literary quality, it is the adventure of 30 men and two women, who at the beginning of the 16th century cross the jungle in search of gold. We have tried to make a classic, non-ideological film. About people who, to escape misery, leave for the Indies in search of fame and fortune. We have tried to make a film as realistic as possible, so that the viewer enters the jungle with them and travels with their fears and dangers, with their violence and darkness, with its cruelty and its epic.”

For his part, Pérez-Reverte recognizes that "the original thing about this story is that it is not original, we have taken all the chronicles of the Indies, absolutely all of them, looking for those common elements to draw the robotic portrait of the conqueror. And this transversal reading of all the chronicles has allowed us to reach the characters that we have been defining. These characters who left a harsh country, a country subjected to priests, kings, and local chiefs, were the emigrants of that time. They went to find a life, to search fame and fortune, in a cruel and at the same time fascinating way. And without wanting to, without intending it, they created a world, where they left language and miscegenation, opening up a terrible and at the same time fascinating landscape, which was the New World, America."

The distribution of Oro It is made up of Raúl Arévalo, Bárbara Lennie, Óscar Jaenada, José Coronado, Antonio Dechent, José Manuel Cervino, Luis Callejo, Juan José Ballesta, Andrés Gertrúdix, Diego París, Ana Castillo and Juan Carlos Aduviri, with the special collaboration of Juan Diego.

Díaz Yanes and Pérez-Reverte collaborated for the last time in the great box office hit Alatriste, starring Viggo Mortensen.

The film is a production of Apache Films, Atresmedia Cine, Telefónica Studios and Sony Pictures Spain. Sony Pictures will also be in charge of its distribution in Spain, Latin America and the United States.