On the advice of our colleague Ines Alvarez I have immersed myself in the Atresplayer platform to watch the docuseries ‘The Enigma of Nadiuska’ that has just been released. It is a devastating job. It is both a cry and a portrait of that generation of uncovered artists, used, squeezed and then thrown into the bin of spent objects.
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The talent of the director Valeria Vegasadded to Lavinia (Christina Vicente and Ruben Mayoral), a producer who knows how to do documentary ultrasounds well, offer us three chapters about that enigmatic woman who is still debated today as to whether she is German, Russian or Polish, who landed in Spain in 1971, and who was the first queen of uncovering. It is said that she was the first to show her breasts in the cinema, that she was the first famous person to get naked for Interviú magazine, and that she released three films a month, an unparalleled feat. She is always forced to undress in all of her cinematographic interventions, today she is, and for 20 years, she has been confined in a psychiatric hospital. «She’s not crazy, they drove her crazy» is noted in the documentary. And culprits are found. To begin with, the then very powerful manager Damián Rabal, which was its manufacturer. He transformed her into a sexual icon. The first in the ‘meat’ market. The most important ‘pupil’ of her ‘block’. The one that provided the greatest dividends. Until the day she wanted to fly on her own and ‘the manufacturer’ decided to gut the doll and annihilate it. Also the film producer and director Ignacio F. Iquino – a shady character according to this documentary – contributed to tormenting her in her suspicious filming.
Chapter 2 is essential. It raises its gaze and focuses, for the first time on television, on the human landscape of ‘the other Nadiuska’ of those years. Sara Mora, Sandra Alberti, Yvonne Sentis, Carmen Platero, Jenny Llada, Josele Román…Some of you may remember them imprecisely. They do know what they had to go through. And they have told it. From going to a job casting and meeting the producer in a dressing gown, in an apartment whose most relevant furniture was the bed and a bottle of champagne, to being part, without knowing it, of photographic ‘books’ as a paid sexual offer. for powerful characters. This docuseries is important. Tell what the uncovering covered. The Atresmedia empire should make it open as soon as possible.