‘Let’s say I’m talking about La Ruta del Bakalao’, the Valencian scene that ended with an overdose of success

The history of the bakalao route will continue to be told in ATRESplayer PREMIUM. After the success that it has supposedThe route‘, original series of the platform, ATRESplayer PREMIUM premieres this Sunday (January 22) the documentary series ‘Let’s say I’m talking about La Ruta‘, a review of the social and musical movement born in Valencia during the 80s. The platform premieres this Sunday the first of the three deliverieswhich will be released every next Sunday.

ATRESplayer PREMIUM continues to bet on the world of documentaries with the brand ‘Let’s say I’m talking about‘, one of the most established on the platform and through which the trajectory of personalities such as Penélope Cruz, Joaquín Sabina, Pedro Almodóvar, Ronaldo, Dulceida or Julio Iglesias has been reviewed.

The documentary, directed by Alberto del Pozo and presented by Iñaki Lópezwill feature interviews with Soledad Jiménez, Cristina Tárrega, Edu Soto, Valeria Vegas, Chimo Bayo, Toni Cantó, Francis Montesinos, Nuria Roca, Joan Lerma, Fernandisco or Borja Soler, creator of the series ‘La Ruta’.

Outside of Spain, ‘Let’s say I’m talking about the Bakalao Route’ will also be available in the international version of ATRESplayer PREMIUM.

The Valencian movement

The Bakalao Route was the banner of Spanish nightlife for a decade. For better and for worse. In the popular imagination it remains as a dark age in which several Valencian nightclubs took turns to open without a break for 4 days in a rowDJs played electronic music and hordes of youth from all over Spain got high with designer drugs to dance tirelessly, losing his life on the road on numerous occasions. So far, the official story.

But the reality is much more complex, it does not consist only of its black legend. The Bakalao Route was a transgressive and avant-garde cultural movement that brought to Spain the latest electronic rock musical novelties, promoted the professionalization of DJs and changed the way of understanding the party in our country. His death came in the mid-90s. curiously, by an overdose of success.

This documentary series produced by Atresmedia Television In collaboration with happy endingthroughout three chapters, the history of an unprecedented cultural movement in our country: the Valencian movement, a sociological phenomenon that despite being born on the periphery of the peninsula managed to change the leisure habits of several generations of Spaniards. And it is that Valencia managed to be, in the transition from the 80s to the 90s, the Spanish epicenter of fun.

Via abundant unpublished material and from more than 30 interviews with its protagonists, we will discover the keys that made this cultural and social phenomenon possible and we will try to understand the reasons for its ill-fated end. And it is that for the first time in history, all those who were decisive in the development of the Valencian movement and the subsequent Bakalao Route have been brought together in the same audiovisual production.

Chapter 1: Valencia. The party begins

The 80s were years of freedom thanks to the brand new democracy. A new reality that was lived with special intensity on the Valencian coast, since the winds of change were accompanied by a privileged geographical location, an incessant commercial exchange and a massive arrival of European tourists. A cocktail that made possible an explosive stage of creativity.

Those new sounds that came, above all, from the United Kingdom and Central Europe sounded first in Barrack, a nightclub located in the municipality of Sueca, a few meters from the beach. But Barraca was much more than a nightclub with modern music. There were unforgettable nights with avant-garde shows.

Added to the sudden success of Barraca was the opening of other nightclubs around it, such as Chocolate Y Spooky Factoryeach one of them with a very marked personality, which made the audiences of one and the other very different.

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Premiered last November, ‘The route‘ was crowned with unanimous applause from the public and critics from the very beginning. He has ended up consecrating himself as the most nominated series at the Feroz Awardswhich are released this same month of January, with six candidacies.

‘La Ruta’ is the journey of a group of friends from Sueca, from their farewell on a crowded Ruta Destroy, in 1993, until the day they entered Barraca for the first time, in 1981, when both they and “the party” were still They kept their innocence. The series stars Àlex Monner, Claudia Salas, Ricardo Gómez, Elisabet Casanovas and Guillem Barbosa.