TV series

Tales from the Mountain

2023 · 1 season

A hushed, hard-scrabble portrait of rural lives, patient and austere, where quiet endurance sits beside sudden cruelty.

Overview: Adaptation of Miguel Torga's iconic short stories. An intimate look at a rural community in the 1940s. Each chapter has its own protagonist, whose existence is untouched by modernity or the outside world. Five portraits of humble lives with enormous resistance to suffering - and a capacity for violence that, at times, proves impossible to repress.
How it feels: Melancholic, bleak, earnest and dark. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Survival, isolation, politics, violence
Content: Strong violence. Mild gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: bleakstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 3 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: survival
isolation
politics
violence
death
Places: countryside
small town
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: anthology
serialised
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild