Spain’s Film Factory Entertainment has picked up global rights to “ Pray for Us ,” the latest from Daniel Monzón, produced by Arcadia Motion Pictures , the Madrid-based outfit behind Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s “The Beasts” and Pablo Berger’s Oscar-nominated “Robot Dreams.”

Headlined by Zoe Bonafonte (“The Goldsmith’s Secret,” “The 47”) and Manuela Calle (“Marbella”), the film also stars Adelfa Calvo (“On the Fringe,” “God’s Crooked Lines”), Malena Gutiérrez (“Bitching and Witching,” “All About My Mother”) and María Cerezuela (“Maixabel”).

Reuniting Monzón with longtime co-writer Jorge Guerricaechevarría and inspired by real events “Pray for Us” dramatizes one of the most silenced chapters of Franco’s Spain: the Patronato de Protección a la Mujer (Women’s Protection Board). Created in 1941

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