Young And The Damned ( Los Olvidados ) ( The Forgotten Ones )

Young And The Damned (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Los Olvidados
Alternate Title: The Forgotten Ones
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Cannes Film Festival

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
80 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Alternative Footage
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1950 and produced in:
Mexico ( Latin America, Mexico )

Directed By:
Luis Bunuel

Written By:
Luis Alcoriza
Luis Bunuel

Actors:
Alfonso Mejía ..... Pedro
Estela Inda ..... Pedro's Mother
Miguel Inclán ..... Don Carmelo, the blind man
Roberto Cobo ..... El Jaibo
Alma Delia Fuentes ..... Meche
Francisco Jambrina ..... The Principal
Jesús Navarro ..... Julian's father (as Jesús García Navarro)
Efraín Arauz ..... Cacarizo
Jorge Pérez ..... Pelon
Javier Amézcua ..... Julian
Mário Ramírez ..... Ojitos, the lost boy
Ernesto Alonso ..... (voice)
Héctor López Portillo ..... The Judge
Ramón Martínez ..... Pedro's brother
Ángel Merino ..... Carlos, Principal's assistant
Diana Ochoa ..... Cacarizo's Mother
Salvador Quiroz ..... The Blacksmith
Charles Rooner ..... Pederasti
Juan Villegas ..... Cacarizo's Grandfather

Synopsis:

The winner of two Cannes Film Festival awards, Luis Buсuel's Los Olividados (aka The Forgotten and The Young and the Damned) was the director's first international box-office success. Yet Buсuel showed no signs of curbing the outrageous iconoclasm that made him famous in Europe and South America: one of the more lasting images of the film is the clash-of-cultures shot of a glistening new skyscraper rising above the squalid slums of Mexico City. The story concerns a gang of juvenile delinquents, whose sole redeeming quality is their apparent devotion to one another. Part of the film's perverse fascination is watching Buсuel's street punks cause misery to those less fortunate. The audience immediately identifies with Pedro (Alfonso Meja), the youngest gang member, who evinces a spark of decency; yet Pedro, like the others, remains a victim of circumstances far beyond his control. Throughout, Buсuel maintains an objective tone: it is our responsibility, not his, to judge the gang members. Seasoned with haunting dream sequences, Los Olividados was the opening volley in what would turn out to be Buсuel's most creative period.

A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent and crime-filled life in the festering slums of Mexico City, and the morals of young Pedro are gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others...

The film is about a group of destitute children and their misfortunes in a Mexico City slum.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 04 January, 2010.

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