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Lute: Forge On or Die (1987)

Lute: Forge On or Die (1987)

Drama
Release Date: 1987, September 19
Directors: Vicente Aranda
Countries: Spain
Production: MGC Producciones Cinematográficas y Audiovisuales, Multivideo, Multivideo, TVE, TVE
Cast: Román Ariznavarreta, Saturno Cerra, Ricardo Palacios, Manuel de Blas, Miguel Palenzuela, José Canalejas, Rafael Hernández, Imanol Arias, Enrique Navarro, Raúl Fraire, José Yepes, Diana Peñalver

Overview:

In Spain of the 1960s, a poor family of quinquis - a nomadic ethnic group with a tradition as old as that of the gypsises of Spain but with even more obscure origins - have a nomadic life marked by poverty. The son, Eleuterio Sánchez Rodriguez, nicknamed "El Lute", steals some chickens and is condemned to six months in jail. El Lute moves to the slum outskirts of Madrid with his common law wife, Chelo, starting an itinerant life as a peddler of pots and pans and living in a quinqui shantytown. He gradually embarks upon as life of petty criminality, eventually participating in the theft of a jewelry store during which a bystander is killed.

Keywords:

biography robbery poverty prison escape rural area cine quinqui shack merchero