Andrés Koppel shoots the police thriller 'The Fog and the Maiden' in the Canary Islands

The film produced by Atresmedia Cine will be shot in the Canary Islands for 8 weeks between La Gomera and Tenerife.

Atresmedia Cine has started filming The fog and the maiden, police thriller starring Quim Gutiérrez (Anacleto: Secret agent), Veronica Echegui (Kathmandu: a mirror in the sky), Aura Garrido (The body) and Roberto Álamo (May God forgive us) and directed by Andrés Koppel.

This thriller is the film adaptation of the novel of the same name by the winner of the Nadal Prize and Planeta Prize Lorenzo Silva, which is part of the series of novels starring the investigative couple Bevilacqua and Chamorro and which has titles such as The impatient alchemist y foreign bodies, among many others. Director Andrés Koppel also signs the script that adapts this novel. Koppel who has participated as a screenwriter in films such as in hostile zone, Twelfth Night o Intact, has directed the shorts European Union, 238 y The stripe now making the leap to the feature film.

Filming will last 8 weeks between La Gomera and Tenerife. The film is a production of Tornasol Films, Atresmedia Cine, Hernández y Fernández PC and Gomera Producciones, with the participation of Atresmedia; It will be distributed by DeAPlaneta and will premiere in 2017.

Mystery on the island

Gomera Island. The corpse of a young man appears in a forest on the small island. The case was quickly closed by the authorities without finding the culprit. Three years later, Civil Guard Sergeant Bevilacqua (Quim Gutiérrez) and his assistant, Corporal Chamorro, are sent to the island to reactivate the investigation. They are accompanied by Corporal Anglada (Verónica Echegui), the last person who saw the young man alive.

Everything points to a renowned local politician, who was acquitted by a popular court despite the apparent strength of the first investigations. Investigators will fight to clarify this complicated case, behind the fog of an island that hides terrible secrets from its inhabitants...