El cor de la ciutat (2000)
El cor de la ciutat is a 2000 Catalan-language soap series created by Jordi Galcerán and Josep Maria Benet i Jornet. It stars Pep Anton Muñoz, Bernat Quintana and Montse Guallar.
Life in the Barcelona neighbourhoods of Sants and Sant Andreu, told through the shops, flats, and bars where the same neighbours keep crossing paths. Broadcast in Catalan on TV3 from 2000 to 2009, this soap followed dozens of interlocking lives: families, couples, workers, and one of Catalan television's more prominent gay storylines. It grew into the most watched fiction on Catalan TV, pulling roughly a third of the audience and more during season finales. The reward is the long game, watching ordinary people age, quarrel, reconcile, and carry on, a whole community rendered week after week.
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What is El cor de la ciutat about?
Life in the Barcelona neighbourhoods of Sants and Sant Andreu, told through the shops, flats, and bars where the same neighbours keep crossing paths. Broadcast in Catalan on TV3 from 2000 to 2009, this soap followed dozens of interlocking lives: families, couples, workers, and one of Catalan television's more prominent gay storylines. It grew into the most watched fiction on Catalan TV, pulling roughly a third of the audience and more during season finales. The reward is the long game, watching ordinary people age, quarrel, reconcile, and carry on, a whole community rendered week after week.
When was El cor de la ciutat released?
El cor de la ciutat was released on 11 September 2000.
How many episodes does El cor de la ciutat have?
El cor de la ciutat has 1906 episodes across 10 seasons.
Who made El cor de la ciutat?
El cor de la ciutat was created by Jordi Galcerán, Josep Maria Benet i Jornet and Lluís Arcarazo.
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Cast
- Pep Anton Muñoz as Peris
- Bernat Quintana as Max Carbó
- Montse Guallar as Montse Borràs
- Oriol Vila as Ivan Crespo
- Artur Trias as Francisco Luque
- Mercè Arànega as Paquita
- Miquel García Borda as Marcel Navarro
- Meritxell Ané as Remei
- Ferran Carvajal as Narcís
- Carme Contreras as Roser Balaguer
- Silvia Sabaté as Clara Bosch
- Carme Fortuny as Pilar Balaguer
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For readers who like an ensemble held together by place and community, Out in the Real World follows queer lives finding their footing, echoing the show's coming-out threads. For the Spanish-language literary register of a city and its people, Ernesto Sabato's Sobre héroes y tumbas maps Buenos Aires through tangled families and longing. Both trade in intimate, overlapping lives the way the series does.
Long-running soaps built on a whole community
El cor de la ciutat spent nine years in the Barcelona districts of Sants and Sant Andreu, following neighbours through the shops and bars where their lives keep colliding. These share that community canvas: a fixed set of streets or buildings, a big ensemble, and the pleasure of watching ordinary people age and feud over many seasons.
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El cor de la ciutat became the most watched fiction on Catalan TV by playing the long game with dozens of interlocking lives. These telenovelas work the same patient way: families, rivalries, and romances stretched across hundreds of episodes, where the reward is loyalty to characters you have watched change week after week.