El Internado

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El Internado
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The actors of El Internado in the premiere of the 3rd season.
Genre Telenovela
Drama
Thriller
Created by Daniel Écija
Laura Belloso
Juan Carlos Cueto
Rocío Martínez-Llano
Starring Yon González
Blanca Suárez
Martiño Rivas
Ana de Armas
Elena Furiase
Natalia Millán
Luis Merlo
Marta Torné
Amparo Baró
Marta Hazas
Irene Montalà
Carlos Leal
Cristina Marcos
Denisse Peña
Daniel Retuerta
Raúl Fernández de Pablo
Javier Ríos
Lola Baldrich
Carlota García
Ismael Martínez
Javier Cidoncha
Yolanda Arestegui
Luis Mottola
Country of originSpain
Original languageSpanish
No. of seasons7
No. of episodes71
Production
ProducerGlobomedia
Running time75 minutes approx.
Original release
Network Antena 3
Release24 May 2007 (2007-05-24) 
13 October 2010 (2010-10-13)
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El Internado (The Boarding School), also known as El Internado: Laguna Negra (The Black Lagoon Boarding School) is a Spanish teen drama thriller television series produced by Globomedia for the Spanish network Antena 3. The series was originally broadcast in Spain from 24 May 2007 to 13 October 2010. The series began airing on Netflix on 15 July 2015, and it stopped airing on 20 December 2017. Then, the series was reaired on 16 October 2018.

Contents

A reboot series, El Internado: Las Cumbres , premiered on Amazon Prime Video on 19 February 2021. [1] [2]

Synopsis

First season

Marcos Novoa Pazos (Martiño Rivas) and Paula Novoa Pazos (Carlota García), two Galician siblings whose parents have disappeared on the high seas, go to El Internado: Laguna Negra under the custody and guardianship of the director, Héctor de la Vega (Luis Merlo).

María Almagro (Marta Torné) is also new, entering as a cleaner. Alfonso Ceballos Parra (Francisco Merino) trusts Victoria Martínez González (Elena Furiase) and Carolina Leal de Solis (Ana de Armas) to tell them a secret: boarding school is dangerous and they have to get out of there. To do this, he meets them at night in the cemetery near the building. The girls tell Iván Noiret León (Yon González), Roque Sánchez Navas (Daniel Retuerta), Cayetano Montero Ruiz (Fernando Tielve) and Marcos, who go to meet Alfonso, but he ends up not being there. This is because he got kidnapped and put in the underground tunnels to die.

Second season

The death of Cayetano has further awakened the interest of the boys to know who is behind all the strange murders committed in the boarding school, especially for Roque, a faithful friend of the deceased and supposedly the last person he spoke with. Mateo Tabuenca (Alejandro Botto) a new math teacher, arrives. At the same time, a new, somewhat troubled student, Julia Medina Jiménez (Blanca Suárez), comes to El Internado after having had a romantic relationship with her stepfather. Vicky has other matters to attend to since Cristina Palacios, a girl from her neighborhood, disappeared without a trace and thinks that the new teacher is the culprit. Elsa Fernández Campos (Natalia Millán) is pregnant with twins and discovers that she has a twin brother who is lost in the forest, but through the memories of Jacinta García Aparicio (Amparo Baró) It Is shown that a young Jacinta (Carolina Lapausa), hid him in the past to protect her life and he is the Gnome, a friend of Paula. Elsa goes to meet her brother, but gets scared when she sees him and loses the twins. Her brother takes her to the boarding school, but before arriving, the police officers shoot and kill him. Elsa reveals that Pedro was the father of the twins.

Third season

Iván killed Fermín's contact when he pointed a pistol at María. Fermín's boss thinks that Fermín de Pablo (Raúl Fernández de Pablo) has betrayed him by taking the Epiphany Triptych and has sent Nora Díez (Mariona Ribas) to El Internado, as a history teacher, to watch over him. The boys think that Hector is the culprit of everything, but they realize that this is not true when they find out that he belonged to the group of orphans who, like them, investigated what was happening there. Irene Espí (Yolanda Arestegui) tries to escape through the corridors with her baby with the help of Nora, who dies at the scene. Nora, dying, calls Fermín and tells him where Irene Espí is to be rescued. Julia sees Cayetano in the form of a ghost, he wants to tell his friends who killed him.

Fourth season

Fermín is eager to find out who his father's murderer was, since he knows that he is at boarding school. Throughout the season he realizes that his father killed three of the founders of the Gemini Project.

Iván and Julia start a romance. On the one hand, Martín Moreno (Ismael Martínez) and his son Lucas Moreno Yerena (Javier Cidoncha) arrive at the boarding school, who are fleeing since Martín escaped with his son behind the back of his wife Silvana Yerena (Lara Ruiz). And on the other hand, Toni Fernández (Alejandro Casaseca), Iván's biological father, who comes to clean the kitchen chimney and stays as a technical repairman.

Fifth season

At El Internado arrives Rebeca Benarroch (Irene Montalà), as a new history teacher, Lucía García Miranda (Lola Baldrich), as a doctor and Hugo Alonso (Javier Ríos), as a new physical education teacher. Rebeca will feel an attraction towards Martín, who looks embarrassed since she sees the darker side of someone just by touching him, and she saw him kill Don Joaquín. On the other hand, together with Fermín, he investigates the Nazism at the boarding school. In the penultimate chapter, Hugo makes himself known as one of the shareholders of the Ottox company, joining Noiret and Camilo. Two other new characters are Nacho García Vallejo (Jonás Berami), Vicky's boyfriend, and Fernando Ugarte Roldán (Adam Quintero), Amelia's brother, and according to him, "currency" of the Gemini Project, since They injected him with the virus to provide the cure only if his sister helped the project. Both Fermín and Rebeca and the boys discover a meeting room with a swastika under the hermitage. That's where the eight Nazi founders met, and where Camilo burns.

Sixth season

Lucas tells Evelyn and Paula that a wild animal usually enters the kitchen and devours all the food it catches. This is no other person than Camilo, who survived the burns and lives in the forest training wolves, to take revenge on Ottox. Jaques Noiret (Carlos Leal) discovers that his biological son that he maintains with Lucía is locked up in a place protected from the sun's rays, since he suffers from Gunther disease, he will die if the sun hits him. Furthermore, Marcos and Paula's grandfather takes advantage of the amnesia of Andrés Novoa Setien (Luis Mottola), Marcos and Paula's father, to make him believe that he was helping him with the experiments before the accident. But he does not believe and insists on removing Samuel, Marcos and Paula's little brother, and his wife Sandra Pazos (Yolanda Arestegui) from the place where they are kept. Hugo's twin brother, Apolo with whom Andrés and Sandra went to meet in Nysiros, Greece, is at El Internado and Hugo will have no choice but to confront him. On the other hand, the boys continue to ponder the subject of that one of them is a traitor, especially Carolina, who is killed by the traitor just after finding out who he is: Roque. Julia sees a ghost just like Paula, who is none other than Eva Wulf (Carlota García), Wulf's biological daughter, whom she cryogenized to cure him of the disease he contracted years ago. Buck throws a grenade into the room where Wulf prepares to heal his daughter, killing them both and destroying much of the underground. In addition, a capsule of a deadly virus has spread for the boarding school, because of Javier Holgado (Sergio Murillo).

Seventh season

The army has surrounded the boarding school with the CBRN protocol, and does not let anyone out as it is a quarantine. All end up infected and without medicines, when they discover that everything is in the hands of Ottox and that Colonel Araujo is in command of the quarantine, he is actually Karl Fleischer, one of the Nazis and founder of the Gemini project. The colonel has the help of Lieutenant Nicolás Garrido, who is infiltrating the boarding school. Four new people enter at El Internado, they are infected: Clara Sáez de Tejada (Natalia Lóz) the old dance teacher who works for Ottox, Curro Bermúdez Pereira (Eduardo Mayo) he was looking for Amaia González (Nani Jiménez) when she was infected, Javier Holgado's mother and another boy who has not yet been known. Knows nothing. Meanwhile, Hector has survived the explosion of the underground tunnels and finds himself trapped in a room. Sandra is kidnapped again by Camilo. The boys discover that the traitor is Roque, who dies at the hands of Lieutenant Garrido when he discovers that the lieutenant had murdered Lucía. Amelia finds the medicines in the tunnels, but Hugo discovers her and kills her. By not taking the medicines Elsa dies from the virus. It is discovered that Amaia is the granddaughter of Theodora Raüber, the last of the Nazi founders of the Gemini Project who was yet to appear.

In the final chapter of the series, everyone is cured of the virus with the machine that Max Levov (Santi Pons) builds, who is killed by Amaia, who dies when she tries to take Paula and Vicky hits her head with a shovel and when she falls she throws a syringe with some deadly material, he actually only had air the same way he killed Max. Iván has an intense Shotokan fight with Hugo, in the fight Hugo catches fire and burns to death. Fermín dies in the arms of María, assassinated by Lieutenant Garrido, but his death has not been in vain since everyone leaves the boarding school thanks to his escape strategy. After he dies, his spirit appears to Julia and tells her to take good care of María and Iván. Finally, the military realizes that Lieutenant Garrido is with the Nazis and allows the students to cross the fence and leave the boarding school. Samuel Espí and his sister Irene Espí are finally reunited with Marcos, Paula and little Samuel. The Nazi founders who were left alive; Colonel Araujo, Theodora Raüber and Lieutenant Garrido are arrested by Rebeca and the military. Vicky shows that in the future she will end up with a military man who helps them escape. The love of Iván and Julia continues. Martín and Rebeca also stay together.

El Internado: Las Cumbres

This reboot also works as a direct sequel since in the first chapter we are shown a sequence from a newscast where Julia Medina Jiménez (Blanca Suárez) and Iván Noiret León (Yon González) are in an interview with Sandra Sabatés talking about the book they wrote together where they tell everything that happened to them and their friends in the “Laguna Negra” and the book is dedicated to their daughter Carolina Noiret Medina who was named in honor of their old friend Carolina Leal Solis (Ana de Armas).

Cast

Protagonists

Main cast

International Broadcasting

Russia
On 11 April 2011, the Russian version was introduced on the Russian channel CTC. The Russian adaptation of the series is called "Private School" (Russian : Закрытая школа, Transliteration: Zakrytaya shkola). The pilot names are "Интернат" ("Boarding School") and "Лес" ("Forest"). The original series was broadcast on AXN Sci Fi.

Mexico
On 25 May 2009, the series was introduced on the Mexican channel Azteca 7. As of now[ when? ], Azteca 7 has broadcast the series through the fourth season. Currently, it only airs on Antena 3 Internacional.

Peru
The series began playing 30 May 2010 in Trujillo, and it is currently still playing.

Central Europe
The series will soon be broadcast on AXN Central Europe.

United States
The Spanish production company had been in contact with American channels and producers to adapt or co-produce an American version. In July 2015, the original series became available on Netflix.

France
A French version of El Internado called L'Internat was made for channel M6. The story took place in a college situated in a forest of the Department of l'Essonne. The series began its first season (with 10 episodes each 50 minutes long) in November 2009 and ended in December of the same year due to results beneath what was expected. It is not expected to return.

Serbia
The series is broadcast on B92. First, in 2012, it was aired on weekends at 14:30. It was cancelled after 50 episodes. From 7 January 2013, this series is airing from Monday to Friday at 13:00 and midnight. Currently, B92 is transmitting the 7th season.

Montenegro
The series was broadcast on TV Vijesti.

North Macedonia
The series began playing on 13 May 2013 on the channel Alfa TV (North Macedonia).

Portugal
The series is broadcast on SIC Radical.

Iran

The series is broadcast on Rubix HD and GEM TV. The first episode was on broadcast on 24 May 2013. [3]

Kurdistan

The series is broadcast on GEMKURD TV.

Vietnam

The series is broadcast on VTC5.

Series overview

SeasonEpisodesOriginally airedDVD release dateRatings
Season premiere Season finale Spain viewers
(millions)
Share
1624 May 200728 June 200725 March 20084.0823.8%
287 November 20072 January 200820 May 20083.6120.2%
3923 April 200825 June 200828 October 20083.4220.4%
41122 October 2008 (2008-10-22)15 January 200926 May 20093.8922.0%
5912 May 20097 July 20093 November 20093.1618.4%
61316 November 2009 (2009-11-16)1 March 201024 August 20102.9316.5%
7152 June 201013 October 2010 (2010-10-13)1 November 20103.6719.9%

Season 1 (2007)

  1. Monsters Do Not Tickle (Los monstruos no hacen cosquillas)
  2. Everyone In The World Has A Secret (Todo el mundo tiene un secreto)
  3. Eyes That Don’t See (Ojos que no ven)
  4. A Message In A Bottle (Un mensaje en una botella)
  5. A Body in the Lagoon (Un cadáver en La Laguna)
  6. The Night of Saint Isabel (La noche de Santa Isabel)

Season 2 (2007-2008)

  1. What Do Fish Dream about? (¿Con qué sueñan los peces?)
  2. Chasing Fireflies (Persiguiendo luciérnagas)
  3. The Ring (El anillo)
  4. The Music Box (La caja de música)
  5. In Alphabetical Order (En orden alfabético)
  6. See To Believe (Ver para creer)
  7. My Friend the Monster (Mi amigo el monstruo)
  8. The North Pole (El polo norte)

Season 3 (2008)

  1. The Owl (El Búho)
  2. Eight Millimeters (Ocho Milímetros)
  3. The Lead Soldier (El soldadito de plomo)
  4. At the Bottom of the Ocean (En el fondo del mar)
  5. Life is a Dream (La vida es un sueño)
  6. The Worst Prison in the World (El peor prisión del mundo)
  7. The Ghost of Beheaded Teacher (El fantasma de la profesora decapitada)
  8. The Five Avengers (Los cinco vengadores)
  9. Night of the Fire (La noche del fuego)

Season 4 (2008-09)

  1. The Curse (La maldición)
  2. The Treasury (La sala del tesoro)
  3. The Best Kept Secret (El secreto mejor guardado)
  4. Premonition (Premonición)
  5. The Exorcism (El exorcismo)
  6. Written in the Stars (Escrito en las estrellas)
  7. A Good Soldier (Un gran soldado)
  8. The Key (La llave)
  9. The Unicorn (El unicornio)
  10. A Place in the Sea (Un punto en el mar)
  11. The Night of the Two Moons (La noche de las dos lunas)

Season 5 (2009)

  1. Dr. Wulf's Diary (El cuaderno del doctor Wulf)
  2. Amnesia (Amnesia)
  3. A Man in the Bag (El hombre del saco)
  4. The Corpse Bride (La novia cadáver)
  5. The Promise (La promesa)
  6. The Vampire (El vampiro)
  7. The Card King (El rey de la baraja)
  8. Paula in Wonderland (Paula en el País de las Maravillas)
  9. The Last Day (El último día)

Season 6 (2009-10)

  1. Monsters Come at Night (Los monstruos vienen de noche)
  2. Fortune Cookies (Las galletas del porvenir)
  3. The Werewolf (El hombre lobo)
  4. Betrayal (La traición)
  5. The Ball for the Guilty (El baile de los culpables)
  6. Paula and a Wolf (Paula y el lobo)
  7. The Legend of Eve (La leyenda de Eva)
  8. The Ice Princess (La princesa de hielo)
  9. The Alien (El extraterrestre)
  10. Room №13 (La habitación numero 13)
  11. The Wizard (El mago)
  12. Alaska (Alaska)
  13. After the Light (Después de la luz)

Season 7 (2010)

  1. The Protocol (El protocolo)
  2. A Threat (La amenaza)
  3. The Mysterious Man (El hombre misterioso)
  4. The Treasure (El tesoro)
  5. The Center of the Earth (El centro de la Tierra)
  6. The Three Petals (Los tres pétalos)
  7. Carolina's Murderer (El asesino de Carolina)
  8. The Last Wish (El último deseo)
  9. The Beginning of the End (El Principio del fin)
  10. The Last Dose (La última dosis)
  11. The Last Memories (Los últimos recuerdos)
  12. Until Death Do Us Part (Hasta que la muerte los separe)
  13. The Last Breath (El último aliento)
  14. The Light (La luz)
  15. The End (El fin)

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