Prime Video will release an eight-episode Spanish-language adaptation of The House of the Spirits worldwide on April 29, bringing Isabel Allende’s multigenerational saga to streaming after a Berlin festival debut this week. The platform said the series follows three generations of women as their family history unfolds against class conflict and political upheaval, with elements of the supernatural threaded through daily life.
The cast includes Alfonso Herrera as Esteban Trueba, with Nicole Wallace and Dolores Fonzi playing Clara del Valle at different points in her life. Fernanda Urrejola, Francisca Alegría and Andrés Wood serve as showrunners and executive producers alongside Eva Longoria.
Speaking at the Berlin International Film Festival, Urrejola framed the adaptation as a chance to place Latin American voices at the center of a novel that shaped regional identity for decades. “It was about time that we told the story ourselves,” she said. The creative team said Allende gave them full freedom to adapt the book, while still carrying what Wood called a heavy responsibility to honor its scale and emotional weight.
The series positions granddaughter Alba as the entry point, as she pieces together family history through her grandmother’s diaries, a structure that lets the show move between intimate domestic memory and public violence. Alegría connected that approach to present-day politics, arguing that stories about inherited trauma land harder when societies treat the past as disposable. “We need that now,” she told Reuters.
The project has been in development for years, with FilmNation Entertainment producing alongside Chile’s Fabula. In a 2024 announcement, Allende marked the adaptation as a milestone for her debut: “My first novel … has been in print … for 40 years,” she said, calling the series “wonderful.”
