17 Hours

17 Hours (Spanish: 23-F: La película) is a 2011 Spanish political thriller film directed by Chema de la Peña which stars Paco Tous, Juan Diego, Fernando Cayo, Mariano Venancio, and Ginés García Millán.

Taking place over the course of 17 hours,[1] the plot consists of a reconstruction of the 23-February 1981 coup d'état attempt in Spain helmed by Antonio Tejero, Alfonso Armada, and Jaime Milans del Bosch.

Similarly to other fiction works, the narrative underpins the interpretations of the events posed by Javier Cercas in The Anatomy of a Moment.

[2][3] The film is a Lazona and Wave AIE production,[8] and it had the participation of TVE, Telemadrid, and Canal+.

[10] Jordi Costa of El País considered that the film, "unable to get rid of its overdimensioned third-rate TV movie looks", features a background of "inattention, but also irresponsibility and a non-negligible degree of immaturity" on the part of its makers.