The Mediapro Studio Distribution has unveiled key territory offers on Marcel Barrena’s Spanish field workplace hit and multi-Goya Award profitable movie “El 47,” led by an U.S. pact with Myriad Photos.

A touching drama impressed by real-life occasions about how fashionable Barcelona was made, it activates a bus driver performed by star Eduard Fernández. 

“El 47” can be distributed in Italy by Torino-based indie firm Motion pictures Impressed, whereas Mañana handles the movie in Poland and BookMyShow in India.

Following a profitable displaying at Australia’s latest Spanish Movie Pageant, the place the movie’s premiere was a centerpiece, in its first weekend in Australian cinema theater, “El 47” broke into the High 20 on the Australian field workplace.

In Greece, the movie has been screening since early July, distributed by Bizarre Wave. 

The movie has stayed in Spanish theaters for over seven months, grossing close to €3.98 million ($4.62 million), attracting greater than 625,000 moviegoers on the native field workplace, based on Comscore figures printed by Spain’s Icaa movie institute.

A 3-time Goya Award profitable director-scribe, Barrena (“Mediterráneo”) co-penned “El 47’s” screenplay alongside profitable writer-producer Alberto Marini (“The Stranger,” “Whereas You Sleep”).

The movie follows bus driver Manolo Very important, an emigrant from Extremadura performed by Fernández who’s annoyed by the Barcelona Metropolis Council’s declare that public transport can not attain the outlying humble Torre Baró district the place he lives because of slender and unsafe roads. He determines to drive the Route 47 bus to his dwelling village to show them incorrect.

“El 47” can be the story of many different new neighborhoods solid within the Fifties by immigrants who settled on the outskirts of Spain’s huge cities as industrialisation, poverty and rural repression noticed a mass exodus from Spanish villages which created a brand new Spain. Within the Nineteen Seventies  – when the movie takes place – many of those neighborhoods have been nonetheless not thought of a part of town and lacked operating water, electrical energy and different primary commodities reminiscent of a bus service. 

Having fun with a spectacular awards profession, “El 47” has been honored with greater than 30 awards. Amongst them, 5 Goya Awards – together with finest movie, as a joint winner –  from the Spanish Academy, which made it probably the most awarded movie in the newest version.

In Catalonia, it additionally snagged eight Gaudí Awards – together with finest movie –  after scoring 18 nominations, making it probably the most nominated film within the historical past of those prizes. 

“El 47”additionally ranks because the highest-grossing Catalan-language movie in historical past and the most-watched in theaters in over 40 years.

“El 47” received the Forqué Awards for which it was nominated – together with finest scripted characteristic movie – and each Platino and Feroz Awards for finest supporting actress for Clara Segura. 

It additionally picked up three awards from the Spanish Actors’ Union for Segura, Carlos Cuevas and Zoe Bonafonte, in addition to a finest Spanish movie nomination on the Rosa de Sant Jordi Award.

As a part of its worldwide journey, “El 47” has plated a number of festivals, together with the Shanghai Worldwide Movie Pageant, the Nantes Spanish Movie Pageant, the Amsterdam Spanish Movie Pageant, the Spanish and Latin American Movie Pageant in Rome and the Catalan Movie Pageant in Luxembourg. 

Fernández lately received Spain’s Nationwide Movie Prize in Spain, with the judges singling out his efficiency in ‘El 47’ for reward. 

The movie can be a contender at Mexico’s upcoming Ariel Awards vying in the most effective Ibero-American movie class. 

Produced by Laura Fernández Espeso and Javier Méndez at The Mediapro Studio, “El 47” is backed by Movistar Plus+, and funded by the Catalan Institute for Cultural Corporations (ICEC), with the participation of Spanish pubcaster RTVE, Catalonia’s state TV 3Cat with Triodos Financial institution as a key companion, and ICO additionally financing. 

The Mediapro Studio Distribution – the manufacturing, acquisition and gross sales arm of large Grup Mediapro – oversees worldwide gross sales.