Alberto Rodríguez returns to the feature film with 'Modelo 77'

On August 2 at locations in Seville and the Modelo prison in Barcelona, ​​director Alberto Rodríguez will shoot his new feature film Model 77, a story of solidarity and struggle produced by Atypical Films y Movistar+.

Miguel Herran y Javier Gutierrez lead the cast of this Atypical Films and Movistar+ production inspired by real events that will premiere in movie theaters throughout Spain and will later arrive on Movistar+

After the success of the original Movistar+ series To Fish, which became the first series to participate in the Official Section of the San Sebastián International Film Festival, Alberto Rodríguez, Rafael Cobos and Atypical FiIms continue their creative relationship with Movistar+ in this new fiction feature film project intended for exhibition in cinemas.

Alberto Rodríguez (The Minimum Island, The Man with a Thousand Faces, The Plague…) will have its usual team of collaborators, professionals with a brilliant film career and numerous Goya Awards. A long list in which they stand out Rafael Cobos who signs the script with Alberto Rodríguez; the director of photography Alex Catalan (Goya and Platinum Awards for Best Cinematography for The Minimum Island); the art director Pepe Domínguez del Olmo; the costume designer Fernando Garcia, the production director Manuela Ocon; Daniel Zayas in charge of direct sound; José M. G. Moyano as editor; and July of the Rose as composer of the original music.

Rodríguez highlights that "this film that we will shoot shortly has haunted us for the last fifteen years. In 2006 we learned the story of COPEL, the story of a group of prisoners who found, in the worst conditions, a way to be supportive, to stay united, to fight for an ideal even if it is utopian, to fight even if from the beginning everything was lost. In the midst of the transition, in the step towards democracy, the Spanish prisons were agitated by a group of prisoners in search of amnesty, in search of freedom. Above all, they were looking for a way to stay united in a hostile, repressive world where social justice or simply the most basic human rights were conspicuous by their absence."

"Finally, the opportunity arises to film that story. I hope we know how to make a film as exciting and human as the testimony it contains," he adds.