Netflix Adds Cesc Gay-Directed Drama ’53 Domingos’ to Spanish Film Slate

Netflix will produce and release 53 Domingos, the new film from Spanish director Cesc Gay, an adaptation of his own award-winning theater play.

The dramedy follows three brothers who meet up to discuss what to do with their octogenarian father who has started behaving oddly. As they debate whether to put him in a nursing home or have him move in with one of them, the polite family meeting descends into an outrageous, out-of-control fight.

Carmen Machi (Piggy), Javier Cámara (Talk to Her) and Javier Gutierrez (Prison 77) star in the film version.

Gay is best known internationally for his 2015 breakout Truman, starring Ricardo Darín and Javier Cámara. His other features include Stories Not to Be Told (2022), En la ciudad (2003), and Nico and Dani (2000).

53 Domingos is one of three features Netflix unveiled this week as part of its new Spanish originals lineup. The other two are the political thriller Un Fantasma en la Batalla from director Agustín Díaz Yanes (Gold), which Society of Snow filmmaker J.A. Bayona is producing; and the investigative drama La Desconocida, written by journalist and author Rosa Montero.

Un Fantasma en la Batalla was about the lives and experiences of several members of Spain‘s Guardia Civil who were directly involved in the fight against the Basque terrorist group ETA in the 1990s and 2000s. La Desconocida examines the industry of human trafficking by following the investigation into the identity of a woman found in a container in the docks in Barcelona who has memory of who she is or how she got there.