La defensa, por la libertad

The film, co-produced by the General Council of Spanish Lawyers, the Mutuality of Lawyers and Transit Productions, 'The Defense, for Freedom' shows the story of a very important group of lawyers, who committed to freedom and their oath as lawyers, were imprisoned by practice their profession with dignity and were brutally murdered as happened in the terrible Atocha 55. The documentary is made to rescue the memory, but not to archive it, but to tell it, as the interviewed people say. The documentary, directed by Pilar Pérez Solano, winner of a Goya Award in 2014 for 'Las Maestras de la República', captures the history of the Lawyer from the mid-60s to 1978, with unpublished images and testimonies of protagonists from those years since the Congress of León (1970), to the adoption of the Constitution.

Among the people interviewed we can find Manuela Carmena (former mayor of Madrid), Francisca Sauquillo (she was a Madrid Assembly Member, Senator and MEP), Cristina Almeida (she participated in the Izquierda Unida creation), Óscar Alzaga (Constitutional Law professor), Miquel Roca (Convergencia Democrática de Cataluña member) and Alejandro Ruiz-Huerta (Atocha 1977 massacre survivor and nowadays president of the Atocha Lawyers Foundation).

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