The politicians talk. The people remember. Spain's messy democracy, straight from the source.
A history of the Spanish Transition told in first person by the main protagonists: on the one hand, the politicians, idealistic or merely opportunistic, who brought it to a successful conclusion in the tribunes and offices; on the other hand, the citizens who, in the streets, supported it sincerely or fought it with ferocity.
Direction
Bartolomés let contradictions breathe—no narrator saves you.
Editing
Jarring cuts between elite offices and street violence.
Director
Cecilia Bartolomé
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during the first Socialist government, the film's very existence was political—documenting a transition still being contested by those who lived it.
Cecilia and José Juan Bartolomé were siblings who'd already been blacklisted under Franco; this was their return to explicitly political filmmaking.
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