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Beta Fiction Spain Unveils ‘Dolores,’ Plans, Priorities

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John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentMoving waves on Spain’s film-TV scene when it launched in early May, Beta Fiction Spain has unveiled its first project as a producer, “Dolores,” a portrait of Spain’s Dolores Ibarruri, a worldwide icon of the workers’ movement and struggle against fascism.The feature film is inspired by “Pasionaria.

La vida inesperada de Dolores Ibárruri,” a question-posing non-fiction book by Spanish historian Diego Díaz Alonso published in 2020.Underscoring Beta Fiction Spain’s ability to attach best-of-class Spanish talent, the screenplay for “Pasionaria” is being penned by two of Spain’s foremost film-TV scribes, Alejandro Hernández, co-writer of Alejandro Amenábar’s “While at War” and Mariano Barroso’s “What the Future Holds,” and Michel Gaztambide, a writer on Julio Medem’s milestone 1992 debut “Cows,” Enrique Urbizu’s best picture Goya winner “No Rest for the Wicked” and Freddy Highmore heist thriller  “The Vault,” the second highest-grossing Spanish movie of 2021.

Díaz Alonso’s book attempts to explain how Ibárruri was able to rebel against the traditional destiny of a woman from a humble family of Basque miners.

It also notes her status as a gender rights pioneer founding the Unión de Mujeres Antifascistas, the biggest female organization in 1931-39 Republican Spain; and, most polemically, how she battled fascism, colonialism, apartheid and racism while remaining for much of her life a public supporter of Stalin.“Dolores,” the movie, may focus on a specific but significant period in Ibárruri’s life, in line with “While at War.”The film will “show the real person behind the icon,” Mercedes Gamero, CEO of Beta Fiction Spain, said at Conecta Fiction & Entertainment, where a panel,.

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