Model 77 is one of the films of 2022. This story directed by Alberto Rodríguez and starring Miguel Herrán and Javier Gutiérrez about how life was lived in Franco's prisons went through the San Sebastián Festival and had a great role in the Goya. The film was shot in August 2021 in the already dismantled Modelo prison in Barcelona and now returns to its origins.
The old prison has become a cultural center where Modelo 77 will be screened this Thursday. Rodríguez will attend the screening of the film and, at the end, will chat with the public. The event will be free.
Model 77 is the story of a great escape, but also of a convulsive era, that of the Transition, and of some social prisoners, not ordinary, who launched into the fight to claim rights that political prisoners had already seen recognized. with the amnesty law of October 1977.
The film starts in the early 1970s and recreates the internment of a young man accused of fraud whose trial never comes. Model 77 runs through the harshness of life in prison, the abuses of the officials and the union between the inmates to demand improvements.
Model 77, which is based on real events, goes back to June 2, 1978 when the sewers of Provença street in Barcelona began to spit out men from the subsoil. During the previous 15 days, the prisoners from La Modelo had dug a tunnel with plates, metal and everything they could find. A total of 45 convicts managed to escape in the great escape from the Barcelona prison. The Police took eight years to arrest all the escapees and return them to jail.
