La saga de los Rius is a Spanish historical drama television series directed by Pedro Amalio López.
It consists of an adaptation of the three first novels of the Ignacio Agustí's pentalogy La ceniza fue árbol.
The fiction follows the vicissitudes of the Catalan industrial bourgeoisie from 1880 to 1916, conveyed through three generations of the Rius family.
[1][2] La saga de los Rius consists of an adaptation of the first three novels of the Ignacio Agustí's pentalogy La ceniza fue árbol: Mariona Rebull (1944), El viudo Rius (1945), and Desiderio (1957).
[10] The series, directed by Pedro Amalio López, was shot in color and a 35 mm format.