Since April 30, 2025, you can have the dark dystopia Eternauta with Ricardo Darín Stream on Netflix. The series comes from Argentina like its template: this counts here Graphic Novel El Eternauta For the country’s absolute classics since the fifties.

In history, humanity must Against a fatal snowfall With the one Foreign extraterrestrial power the earth attacks. In Buenos Aires there are few survivors together to face their fate and fight against the threat. The trailer already tells us: nobody can do it alone.

Template of the Netflix series: The Graphic Novel Eternauta comes from time of political unrest

The Argentine journalist and comic artist published it in the late fifties Héctor Germán Oesterheld The graphic novel el Eternauta. At that time, Argentina was from political unrest Minted: until the 1970s found again and again Military coup And abrupt a change of government.

Maybe these circumstances have contributed to the firm conviction that Oesterheld in Eternauta represents: only humanity is strong together and can oppose injustice. Oesterheld and his family were themselves active in political resistance and fell only a few years after the release of Eternauta terrible fate victim.

The inventor of Eternauta was politically persecuted and murdered

In 1977, almost 20 years after Eternautas, Oesterheld was arrested and violently deported to a military prison. His four daughters, who, like him, were active in radical left -wing resistance, were murdered by the military regime. The last time he was seen by a co -breed in January 1978.

Oesterheld’s wife, who only died in 2015, sees a serious political souvenir in his work. The Guardian quotes them as follows:

El Eternauta was a parallel to what Argentina happenedwhat happened to me. My family was destroyed, as our country was destroyed.

To date, Oesterheld’s fate is the subject of political campaigns and controversy. He worked in the resistance until shortly before his death and also published work against the Argentine military dictatorship from the underground. The Junta killed 30,000 people in the self -proclaimed fight against Marxism.

Oesterheld’s beliefs can be found in Sci-fi history Eternauta: “Nobody can do it alone”

In the Guardian describes Oesterheld’s grandson Martín human bonds and relationships as “Central axis” of his stories. The producer works as a creative consultant for the series and describes the central values ​​of the series in a Netflix feature as “Solidarity, ingenuity and friendship”.

In Argentina, the graphic novel is one of the absolute classics and after many years of attempts finally finds implementation: This lives with it Oesterheld’s souvenir also in the Netflix adaptation.