The Way They Were is a Spanish Drama starring Antonio Banderas

Based on the life of Dolores Ibarruri (La Pasionaria), president of the PCE. The film is a documentary, prepared over three years with archive material from Moscow, Berlin, Paris, Havana, Yugoslavia and Basque and Spanish film libraries.

Spurred by the contagious energy and vitality that generated the 15-M movement, a group of filmmakers decided to get down to work and that May 15, 2011 took to record much of what went on day and night in the Puerta del Sol and its environs, the spread to Sevilla, Barcelona and New York, with the aim of conveying to the viewer a small part of the excitement that caused this event.