# Carmel: Who Killed Maria Marta? (2020)

> A four-part documentary miniseries revisits the contested death of María Marta García Belsunce and the controversy surrounding the case in Argentina.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/92998

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 4
- Episode runtime: 60 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: documentary, crime
- Created by: Alejandro Hartmann
- Network: Netflix
- Cast: María Marta García Belsunce, Carlos Carrascosa, Rolando Barbano, Pablo Duggan, Horacio García Belsunce, Irene Hurtig, Juan Carlos "John" Hurtig, Guillermo Bártoli
- TMDB rating: 7.0/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13244092/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: dense
- Violence: mild
- Tone: sober, skeptical, unsettling, restrained

## What critics say

Critics broadly find the miniseries a methodical, detailed examination of a contested Argentine murder case that leaves much unresolved.

## Synopsis

Carmel: Who Killed Maria Marta? (2020) is an Argentine true crime documentary miniseries created by Alejandro Hartmann for Netflix. Across four hour-long episodes it returns to the death of María Marta García Belsunce, a woman whose killing inside the Carmel country club community in Buenos Aires became one of the most controversial criminal cases in Argentina. The engine of the series is the tangle of competing accounts: families, people in the orbit of the household, and investigators each offer their version of events, and the viewer watches contradictions pile up. Interviews, archival footage and reconstructions carry the viewer through suspicion, rumor and institutional missteps. The tone is sober, skeptical and quietly unsettling, with a steady documentary restraint that lets the discomfort of wealth, silence and doubt speak for itself. Its look is that of a serious docuseries built from talking heads and crime scene material. Fans of The Staircase, The Jinx and Making a Murderer will find resonance in its close attention to a contested killing and the legal and social forces that shaped its outcome.

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