‘Call My Agent!’ Star Camille Cottin Joins Santiago Mitre’s Netflix Political Thriller ‘Villaflor’
Exclusive: Camille Cottin is among the new names to join Villaflor, the Netflix political thriller from Oscar-nominated director Santiago Mitre. Soledad Villamil and Valeria Lois round out the cast, alongside the previously announced stars Verónica Llinás and Peter Lanzani.
Back in January, Deadline exclusively reported that Mitre was making the Argentina-set thriller for Netflix. At that point, the movie did not have a name, but we can now reveal it as Villaflor. We also have the first pictures from the movie as well as the latest casting details.
That title is fitting, given that Llinás plays Azucena Villaflor, based on the real-life activist who helped found the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo. After her son is taken by the authorities, she transforms the search for him, and others who have disappeared, into an act of resistance against the military dictatorship. Argentina was under military rule from 1976 to 1983, a period during
