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Movistar Plus+ Backs Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Iciar Bollain, Alberto Rodriguez Features as Spanish TV Giant Becomes Movie Powerhouse
‘Fire Will Come’ director Oliver Laxe and ‘Cardo’ co-creator and star Ana Rujas also feature on Movistar Plus’ first movie slate.
Telefonica’s Movistar Plus+, Spain’s biggest pay TV-SVOD operator, is set to co-produce new movies from Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Iciar Bollaín, Alberto Rodríguez, Óliver Laxe and Ana Rujas. In his new film, Laxe returns to Morocco, the setting of his 2016 Cannes Critics’ Week winner “Mimosas,” to portray a “disaffected young generation, searching for freedom and transcendence in a world of a crisis in values, in total collapse. Rujas film tilts its hat to 1976’s “El desencanto,” an iconic doc feature made during Spain’s transition to democracy charting the enduring influence of dead Francoist poet Leopoldo Panero, a famed drunkard and brothel frequenter and authoritarian father to his three sons.
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