‘EL 47’: Production Starts On The Mediapro Studio Historical Pic From ‘Mediterraneo’ Director Marcel Barrena
deadline.comEL 47, the latest feature from Spanish production powerhouse Mediapro Studio, is kicking into gear with cameras set to roll on the pic in Barcelona in the coming days.
Directed by Marcel Barrena (Mediterraneo: The Law of the Sea), the pic is billed as a “tribute to the working class and to the men and women who built our cities, not only physically but also culturally.” The pic tells the story of Manolo Vital, a bus driver who helped create modern Barcelona during the city’s 1970s boom.
Barrena co-wrote the pic with Alberto Marini (El desconocido). Synopsis reads: In the 1960s and 70s Spain, rural Barcelona was built, for the most part, by immigrants from Extremadura and Andalusia who, although they had built the neighborhoods with their bare hands, were still not considered part of the city.
Their homes didn’t even have running water or electricity. Tired of hearing the City Council saying that public transport cannot reach the area because the streets are too narrow and unsafe, bus driver Manolo Vital, at the wheel of bus El 47, sets out to prove the authorities wrong.
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