The documentary Las que se atrevaron, “tells the story of several white women who married and had children with black men in the second third of the 20th century. It was a particularly turbulent time on the European continent and difficult for women, who lived under the tutelage of men”. This story, directed by Santiago A. Zannou, brings the book by Lucía Asué Mbomio to life in a documentary that will be filmed over the next few months.
This project, in which the winner of the Goya for Best New Director for El truco del manco, “will talk about love as a union and overcoming barriers. It will also deal with issues such as sexism and racism framed in the great events that took place in the 20th century but, unlike what we have been shown so far, the protagonists will be daring women who dared to break with the established”.
About the project, Zannou states that “this is a story of white women because it is a reconciliation with a part of me. I cannot deny that if I am here today it is because a white woman had the nerve to break with everything and marry a black man during Franco’s regime, ignoring the voices that asked her what someone like that could bring her. I want to tell her love story and also that of others who, like her, fought against existing prejudices and moved forward with the fruit of that courage in their hands, with their children, with me, without knowing very well what awaited them and confronting it when they had to and with the weapons they found: education, empowerment, pride… Las que se atrevieron is a tribute to the women who in the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s dared to break with the established and gave love a real opportunity”.
