The Netflix streaming platform has finally set a date for the premiere of The Last Hours of Mario Biondo, the docuseries that presents an investigation into the death of the Italian cameraman with whom the presenter Raquel Sánchez Silva was married.
As reported by Netflix, this three-chapter documentary is the result of an arduous investigation that has been carried out between 2021 and 2023. After difficult production work, permits and having found key testimonies to understand what happened on May 30, 2013, the platform is ready to release the result. 200 hours of recording, twenty interviews, an endless number of bibliographical sources… all for and to understand what really happened to the man who was found lifeless at his home half hanged on a shelf with a handkerchief.
Although at first the deceased’s parents signed the rights assignment contract because they agreed with this work, they later changed their minds when they discovered that Guillermo Gómez, former manager of Raquel Sánchez Silva, was behind the project. It should be noted that the businessman was the person who carried out the career of the communicator when everything happened.
The cameraman’s parents signed with the Spanish production company The Voice Village and were interviewed at the end of 2022 in Rome. Everything was going well until the ex-in-laws of the presenter of Maestros de la costura found out that the production company Manguera Films was in charge of directing the operation from Madrid. This audiovisual company was created just a few weeks before by Gómez, something that horrified the Italian couple.
The Biondo couple disassociated themselves from the project and expressed feeling “used” because they had purposely hidden the identity of the creator of said documentary. What weighs the most on the couple is that they trusted the project and gave up a series of confidential information that appeared in the Italian summary, data to which only the Palermo prosecutor’s office and the Vosseler office had had full access.
The separation of the deceased’s parents cost the project some important testimonials, but, under impeccable direction by María Pulido, the piece is ready for millions of viewers around the world to discover “the truth.” For his part, Sánchez Silva has not ruled on the imminent premiere of the documentary.
The promotional video of the documentary that the streaming platform launched this morning has caused a great social uproar and hundreds of users have commented on social networks that they can’t wait any longer to find out what really happened to Mario Biondo.
”Ugh, I really want to see it”, ”I really want to see this”, ”It’s coming”, ”I must say that everything that happened in this case attracts me too much” or ”Go for popcorn” are some of the comments and messages that can be read on platforms such as Twitter and Instagram.
