Platforms such as Movistar+ can play an important role in making these higher-budget films such as ’Prison 77’ possible and viable,” Corral argues. “But it is very difficult for producers to finance premium films with a higher budget, scale and ambition. “As things stand, most of the films that get made in Spain are comedies, thrillers or marvellous arthouse films such as ‘Alcarràs’ and ‘Lullaby,’ made for a maximum €3 million ,” says Domingo Corral, Movistar Plus+ director of original programming. Currently, especially for arthouse and local movies. Spain’s box office imploded with the pandemia. He needed a huge prison which would give the impression of being its own city, he explains. Rodríguez waited two decades to shoot “Prison 77” in the Modelo prison itself. “Prison 77” is “a big film in all senses, not just the material, but screenplay, complexity and quality,” says Félez. Movies also allow Movistar+ to out-scale near all competition.
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Movistar Plus has understood that very well and that the way to tie down actors and directors is for them, hand in hand with the platform, to continue their careers as filmmakers,” says Félez. “Above all else, Alberto sees himself as a film director. Most Movistar directors remain filmmakers Movistar wants to keep its talent. More directors look likely to work this two-way street.
Alejandro Amenábar segued from a Movistar Plus+ movie, “While At War,” to a series, “La Fortuna.” Rodríguez has now gone the other way. Producing movies, Movistar+ can retain talent. Sold by Film Factory Entertainment, “Prison 77” marks Movistar Plus’ third feature production after Alejandro Amenábar’s 2019 “While at War” and Daniel Guzmán’s 2022 humble hood caper “Canallas.” “Prison 77” “isn’t just a prison film, it talks of a bigger picture,” says Rodríguez.
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Manuel soon joins a gaol-based pro general Amnesty org.
That Amnesty was not extended to common law prisoners, however.
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The movie takes place as Spain passes an Amnesty Law in October 1977, which granted the country’s outgoing regime immunity from past crimes against humanity in return for abandoning formal political power. Rodríguez and his longterm scribe Rafael Cobos began to think of a film many years ago when they read about 1970s’ pro-amnesty prisoners union Copel and the biggest jail breakout in Spanish history, when 45 inmates escaped from Barcelona’s Modelo prison, crawling out through its sewers. Like “Marshland,” which swept 10 Spanish Academy Goyas and its 2017 follow-up “Smoke and Mirrors,” “Prison 77” returns to this central Rodríguez theme: The push-back and limitations to social progress which have bedevilled Spanish history.
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In 2017-19’s “The Plague,” set in 1580s Seville and still Movistar Plus’ biggest series to date, Rodríguez paints a fascinating picture of how Spain could have turned a corner, becoming a protestant county in line with much of Northern Europe, Félez observes. In ‘Prison 77,’ through their mutual support, “Miguel and Pino discover who they are and want to be,” says Rodríguez.īut it’s also social-issue, plumbing the process of history. “Penitentiaries normally destroy individuals. Charting “the evolving relationship between two completely different people, a young accountant with his whole life before him, and Pino, who’s lived nearly his whole life behind bars,” “Prison 77” is a story of friendship and solidarity, says José Antonio Félez at Atípica Films which produced the film with Movistar Plus+.
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