One of the most popular current television series produced in Spain must be the heist crime drama series Money Heist created by Álex Pina. A mastermind known as “The Professor” recruits a group of eight people who are each given a code names with a city. The group is to rob the Royal Mint of Spain, and somehow escape without anyone of them getting hurt or seized.

Netflix acquired global streaming rights in late 2017.

Here below you see the main cast, in chronological order. The heist names of the characters are given here in Spanish. Most of the cast members are from Spain, no surprise there. But a few are from elsewhere, and just for fun, here is first the different cities appearing in the code names of the gang members, in English this time:

Berlin, Bogotá, Denver, Helsinki, Lisboa, Marseille, Moscow, Nairobi, Oslo, Palermo, Rio, Stockholm and Tokyo. The links take you to the individual stories in the article series Streets & Squares here in Journeys of Life.

1964-0501 Paco Tous* as Agustín “Moscú” Ramos. From Sevilla, Andalusia, Spain
1968-0422 Fernando Cayo* as Colonel Luis Tamayo. From Valladolid, Spain

1971-0621 Pedro Alonso* as Andrés “Berlin” de Fonollosa. From Vigo, Galicia, Spain
1972-0214 Najwa Nimri* as inspector Alicia Sierra. From Pamplona, Navarra, Spain
1972-1008 Enrique Arce* as Arturo Román. From Valencia, Spain
1972-1114 Hovik Keuchkerian* as “Bogotá”. Born in Beirut, Libanon
1974-0618 Itziar Ituño* as Raquel “Lisbon” Murillo. From Basauri, Basque County, Spain
1975-0223 Álvaro Morte* as Sergio “El Profesor” Marquina. From Algeciras, Cádiz, Spain
1976-0418 Rodrigo de la Serna* as Martín “Palermo” Barroti. From Buenos Aires, Argentina
1976-1028 Luka Peroš* as “Marsella”. From Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia
1977-0325 Darko Perić* as Mirko “Helsinki” Dragic. From Kladovo, Serbia, Yugoslavia

1983-0119 Esther Acebo* as Mónica “Estocolmo” Gaztambide. From Madrid, Spain
1984-0124 Belén Cuesta* as Julia “Manila”. From Sevilla, Spain
1986-1027 Alba Flores* as Ágata “Nairobi” Jiménez. From Madrid, Spain
1989-0811 Úrsula Corberó* as Silene “Tokio” Oliveira. From Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

1991-1212 Jaime Lorente* as Daniel “Denver” Ramos. From Murcia, Spain
1996-0425 Miguel Herrán* as Aníbal “Río” Cortés. From Málaga, Andalusia, Spain

Display window of the clothing store Diesel in Helsinki in the summer of 2019, riding on the popularity of La casa de papel