# Apache: The Life of Carlos Tevez (2019)

> A gritty dramatization of Carlos Tevez's rise from the violent streets of Argentina's Fuerte Apache to soccer stardom.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/78260

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 8
- Episode runtime: 45 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: drama
- Created by: Adrián Caetano, Marcos Osorio Vidal, Diego Alonso
- Network: Netflix
- Cast: Balthazar Murillo, Vanesa González, Alberto Ajaka, Sofía Gala Castiglione, Matías Recalt, Gregorio Barrios, Fernando Contigiani García, Oscar Guzmán
- TMDB rating: 7.2/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10715172/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: moderate
- Tone: gritty, raw, urgent, sincere, hopeful

## What critics say

Audiences rate the series positively for its gritty, grounded portrayal of Carlos Tevez's rise from the harsh conditions of Fuerte Apache.

## Synopsis

Apache: The Life of Carlos Tevez (2019) is a gritty Argentine biographical drama series created by Adrián Caetano, Marcos Osorio Vidal, and Diego Alonso for Netflix. Balthazar Murillo plays the young Carlos Tevez, a boy growing up amid the harrowing conditions of Fuerte Apache, a poor housing complex on the edge of Buenos Aires. Vanesa González plays Adriana, and Alberto Ajaka plays Segundo, two figures whose lives orbit his as he pushes toward professional football. The engine of the story is a simple, urgent want: a talented kid who needs to get out, while the streets, the local gangs, and the grinding scarcity of his neighborhood keep pulling him back. Each episode moves through daily struggles, makeshift matches on dusty pitches, and the small compromises that a family under pressure has to make. Presented as a single eight-episode season of forty-five minutes each, it is a continuous story rather than a case-of-the-week format. The series is set in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century Argentine barrio, and its tone is raw, urgent, and sincere, with moments of hope surfacing through the sport. Its look is grounded and unvarnished, closer to the social realism of City of God and the sports ambition of Maradona: Blessed Dream than to glossy sports drama. Fans of football biopics and gritty urban dramas will find resonance here.

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