These days the majestic Plaza Constitución has been transformed into something like a Central European station from the 1940s, with a production show worthy of major international productions. As was the case with the film La Plata in January 1997 with Brad Pitt and Siete años en el Tibet, this time it is a local production.
The reason: Filming for the upcoming Netflix series, starring Chino Darin and directed by Sebastian Borenstein. The fantasy – which still has no known final title – depicts a story set in World War II with Darren playing a tango singer whose life takes a dramatic turn when he takes part in an intelligence operation in Nazi Germany.
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Part of the filming has already begun in Buenos Aires, with scenes that require setting the environment to reproduce Europe in the 1940s. It is known that some of these scenes are being filmed on platform 14 of the station.
La Plata style 1997
The strategy of using Argentine stations as settings for fictional novels in Europe is not unprecedented: in 1997, La Plata station was used to film a scene from the film Seven Years in Tibet. There, the station is decorated with Nazi symbols, red flags and a theater that seeks to recreate Germany at that time.
Now, the decision to set part of the new shoot at Plaza Constitución follows this tradition: taking advantage of ancient architecture, spacious platforms and an air of grandeur. But this time, with a global online production, local artistry, and a story that blends Argentine identity, tango, and European history.
Plaza Constitución is no pleasant place: its architecture – with its attic, domes and neo-Renaissance details inspired by European eclecticism – was built in 1887, and since 2021 it has been a National Historic Monument.
Today this symbolic weight is mixed with history and imagination: seeing a historic platform transformed into a European platform since the 1940s evokes a powerful mix of local and global nostalgia.
The new Netflix film produced by Kenya Films and K&S Films is, according to the director, “the most challenging project” of his career.
It is a short series of five episodes, characterized by a precise aesthetic that blends tango, drama, suspense and espionage. This is how the platform describes itself: the story of a tango singer with Jewish roots who, deceived by a phony talent hunter, travels to Nazi Germany under promises of a job, and there discovers that his fate holds darker secrets.
The series will be one of the bets for 2026. It still does not have an official release date.