Spanish Television announced this Tuesday the start of filming of its new fiction venture, Las Abogadas. This new series co-produced by RTVE and MOD Producciones will be based on real events and will tell the story of labor lawyers Lola González, Paquita Sauquillo, Manuela Carmena and Cristina Almeida, four of the survivors of the well-known massacre of Atocha lawyers in the year 1977.
It all happened on the night of January 24, 1977, when a group of far-right gunmen broke into the labor lawyers’ office, located at number 55 Atocha Street. There were, in addition to the four women, Javier Sauquillo, Javier Benavides, Enrique Valdevira, Serafín Holgado and Ángel Rodríguez Leal. The five were brutally murdered, while the four protagonists of the series managed to survive.
The fiction will star Paula Usero, who will play Lola González; Elisabet Casanovas, who will be Cristina Almeida; Irene Escolar, who will play the former mayor of Madrid Manuela Carmena in her youth and Almudena Pascual, who will take on the role of Paca Sauquillo.
This new television venture by the public channel has already begun filming, and everything indicates that it will run until next December in locations throughout Madrid, Toledo, Guadalajara, Segovia, Leganés and Hoyo de Manzanares. In addition, Spanish Television has also confirmed that the series will have a total of six chapters.
The series has been created by Patricia Ferreira, known for fictions such as Be Who You Are or The Wild Children. As for the script, it will be under the supervision of Patricia Ferreira, Marta Sánchez, Irene Niubó and Virginia Yagüe. Executive production will be carried out by Nieves Fernández Blanco from Televisión Española and Fernando Bovaira and Guillem Vidal-Folch from the production company MOD Producciones.
Madrid, 1969. Lola González, recently graduated from the Faculty of Law, is looking forward to a new era in which the end of the dictatorship begins to appear. When her boyfriend, Enrique, is detained by the police and dies during an interrogation after falling from a seventh floor under strange circumstances, Lola awakens to the reality that surrounds her and reaffirms her convictions.
On that path to freedom, Lola will meet other young labor lawyers: Cristina, Manuela and Paca. Together with them, she will bravely defend her democratic ideals, always on the side of the most disadvantaged.