Director: Marcel Barrena
Barcelona in the 1970s is a city rebuilding itself, and one bus driver refuses to accept that his neighborhood should be left behind — that's the spark behind "The 47," a 2024 Spanish drama directed by Marcel Barrena.
What is The 47 about?
Manolo Vital drives a public bus through the hillside neighborhoods on the edge of Barcelona, districts that grew fast during the city's postwar boom but were never connected to proper transit. Frustrated after years of watching promises from city officials go nowhere, Manolo makes an audacious decision: he takes matters into his own hands to force a new bus line into existence, turning himself from an ordinary worker into an unlikely organizer. His campaign pulls in neighbors, coworkers, and family, and puts him on a collision course with a bureaucracy that would rather he stay quiet. The film follows how one person's stubborn insistence that his community deserves basic infrastructure ripples outward into a citywide reckoning about who gets to shape a growing metropolis.
Cast & crew
Eduard Fernández plays Manolo Vital, anchoring the film alongside Clara Segura and Zoe Bonafonte. Salva Reina, Óscar de la Fuente, David Verdaguer, Carlos Cuevas, and Betsy Túrnez round out the cast of neighbors, officials, and family caught up in the campaign.
Context & significance
Inspired by a real chapter of Barcelona's urban history, the film revisits the rapid, often chaotic expansion of the city's outer neighborhoods during the 1970s, when infrastructure struggled to keep pace with population growth. Runtime is 110 minutes.
Where & how to watch
"The 47" streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing, part of a library curated for Persian-speaking viewers around the world. This page is free to browse without an account; a K-Time login is only needed to press play on the film itself.