JUAN PRIM (1814-1870), GENERAL AND PRESIDENT OF THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT

RTVE, the Spanish Public RadioTelevision, has just broadcasted a thriller about General Prim, whose assassination is still a mistery for historians.

Original title: Prim, el asesinato de la calle del Turco (TV)

Year: 2014

Running Time: 98 min

Country:  Spain

Director: Miguel Bardem

 

Synopsis / Plot: On the 27th December 1870, a carriage is taking Joan Prim, President of the Council of Ministers, and War Minister, from the Parliament to his residence. On the way he is ambushed, and ten armed men shoot at him. The President manages to arrive home, but 72 hours later dies from his fatal wounds. The story is witnessed by a young writer and journalist, Benito Pérez Galdós, who will research the surrounding circumstances, until he manages to link the various loose ends of the assassination.

 

 

 

Prim, el asesinato de la calle del Turco