The residents of Torre Baró celebrate the success of ‘The 47’ and claim their struggle to place themselves on the map of Barcelona

The Goya for the best film this year took it ’47’ with ‘La Infiltrada’, in a Goya gala that will go down in history for being the first to have Two winning films.

After knowing the news, the residents of Torre Baró celebrated the movie success That tells the story of his neighborhood, the struggle of the man who, almost 50 years ago, kidnapped a bus to denounce the abandonment of a colony lost in the Barcelona outbreak.

José Manuel, neighbor of Torre Baró, says that was not a kidnapping, but “a necessity.” “The Manolo Vital job was played,” he said.

This Saturday was a party night with shouts of “Torre Baró, exists and resists.” Where the most veterans remembered that epic resistance, their fight without rest to place Torre Baró on the map of Barcelona against municipal laziness.

Antonio, neighbor of Torre Baró, tells how they had to “Cut the road to get the water and cut the road to get a boiler because children couldn’t even go to school. “

“I had to cross the mountain with 13 years to go to work,” says another neighbor of the area. Many of them have also participated as extras in the film.

Today they celebrate it, but remember that still There is much to do. The president of the Association of Neighbors Torre Baró, Valeria Ortiz, confesses that “just a few hours ago there were six streets of Torre Baró without Light.”

“The authentic richness of Barcelona is here, on the periphery, in the neighborhoods and not in the center or in tourism,” defends one of the neighbors. That periphery so many times forgotten, with its anonymous faces, has finally jumped to the foreground.

Source: Lasexta

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