The February 23-24, 1981 lesson left Spanish speakers connected to a transistor. The irruption of Civil Guard coroner Antonio Tejero and his subordinates in Congress to shout “To the whole world!” outraged all the weak citizens of our democracy.
What happened in the hours that followed is one of the most fascinating and extreme chapters in our country’s recent history.
The writer Javier Cercas carefully researched it, focusing on the three only men who were not brought to Earth, while the three-horned men brought together the chamber’s cabinet: Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez; Vice President for Defense Officials Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado; and Communist Party General Secretary Santiago Carrillo. Research subjects are according to the book Anatomy of a moment (2019), a massive editorial phenomenon.
Writer Javier Cercas and filmmaker Alberto Rodríguez during an interview with El Cultural director Alberto Ojeda (center). Photo: Javier Carbajal
An immersive story of fiction by a Catalan author with Western resonance and inspiration reimagined by Alberto Rodríguez (Smallest island, Model 77) in a series of four chapters.
The Movistar Plus+ channel is this week, which is mostly November 20th. But not the normal 20th, until the 50th anniversary of the death of Francisco Franco, a dictator who was much less Tejero. Y Milans del Bosch, the general captain who blew up the tanks in the streets of Valencia that night. One night there, for the search, “Spanish democracy was truly born and the civil war ended”. Nothing less.
Let’s talk to both of them in a new episode of the El Cultural video podcast Minimal charms on the conversion of 500 pages of research into 180 minutes of Rodríguez, the importance of making 23-F visible to youth, the precise paper of King Juan Carlos, the political importance of placing general interest for top staff…
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