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About three years ago, the City Council of a town near Barcelona sent in a sanitation crew to clear out the rooms of an old building that it had just bought. While removing the thick layer of dust accumulated over years of neglect, they unearthed a treasure of unimaginable value. It was a collection of thousands of old letters, carefully packed away for storage. Their surprise turned into amazement when they realized that stored and forgotten in that old garret was the correspondence of the famous radio advice show hosted by Doña Elena Francis. The program began broadcasting in 1947, during the toughest years of Franco’s iron-fisted dictatorship, and ended in 1984. It became the most popular show on Spanish radio. This discovery opened the door to the secret, intimate world of thousands of people, mostly women, who turned to the fictitious Elena Francis for advice.

Spain - 2009 - 53 mn - Betacam Digital • 16/9 - Colour and B&W

Director Josep Rovira Cuadrench Writer Josep Rovira Cuadrench Camera Lluís Montserrat Sound Carles Garcia Editing Jordi Diaz Music David Bustamante

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