A car thief turned Argentina Dirty War death squad member, torturer and ‘perverse psychopath,’ Gordon begs the question of how such a monster could have gained so much power in 1970s Argentina. The series answers that question
\n\nA Netflix Nov. 18 bow, Pablo Trapero’s “Gordon,” led by “Money Heist” star Rodrigo de la Serna, weighs in and is shaping up as Argentina’s series of the year.
\n\nSet over 1970-76 and shot over seven months with large cinematographic ambition by two of Argentina’s greatest directors, Trapero (“Leonera,” “The Clan”) and Pablo Fendrik (“The Bronze Garden,” “Amongst Men”), “Gordon” lifts the lid on the real-life Ánibal Gordon – an infamous torturer, psychopath and sybarite of violence – and through him Argentina’s biggest horror story, its 1974-83 Dirty War.
\n\nIf periods of terror can have its icons, one of the War’s was Gordon who acts like a “sci-fi portal, opening doors to Argentina’s different universes of the time,” says Trapero.
\n\n“Gordon,” a seven-part period psychological action thriller, marks the return of Trapero to his native Argentina after eight years. Unlike the famed international series he has co-directed of late, such as “ZeroZeroZero,” here Trapero also co-writes, with Marcos Osorio Vidal, a sign of…
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