The street boys
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The street boys |
| Original title | Los golfos |
| Country of production | Spain |
| original language | Spanish |
| Publishing year | 1960 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Carlos Saura |
| script |
Mario Camus , Daniel Sueiro , Carlos Saura |
| production | Pere Portabella |
| music |
José Pabán , Antonio Ramírez Ángel |
| camera | Juan Julio Baena |
| cut | Pedro del Rey |
| occupation | |
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The street boys (original title: Los golfos ) is a Spanish film drama in black and white from 1960 by Carlos Saura , who - together with Mario Camus and Daniel Sueiro - wrote the script. Manuel Zarzo , Luis Marín , Óscar Cruz and Juanjo Losada can be seen in the leading roles . The work had its world premiere in May 1960 at the Cannes International Film Festival . In the Federal Republic of Germany it had its premiere on April 4, 1967 in the ARD program .
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The story is set in the slums of Madrid during the Franco era, shortly after the end of World War II . The curtain falls on Carlos Saura's account of the everyday life of a handful of street boys in a suburb with the image of a bull breaking down. The twitching bull's body in the sand of the arena marks the end of a tragedy: Amid the cheering of disappointed and indignant spectators, the hopes of the boys are carried to the grave, with the help of their friend Juan, to escape the lowlands of their everyday lives and to secure a place in the sun. But Juan failed. In vain the street boys stole and beat up taxi drivers, in vain they ambushed and robbed people in order to enable Juan to start as a bullfighter. Now the crowd yells at him, yelling “Butcher!” And there won't be a second chance for him. Not for Juan and not for all of them - Ramón, Julian, “El Chato” (= the flat-nosed man), Manolo and Visi. Juan's defeat seals her fate, just as the fulfillment of Juan's dream has already sealed the fate of her friend Paco: Recognized as a thief by a taxi driver and pursued by the police, Paco drowned in the labyrinth of the sewer system. None of them will ever be able to break the vicious circle of poverty and misery and escape the filthy backyards and dilapidated houses of the suburbs.
Reviews
The Protestant film observer draws the following conclusion: “In strict, objective images, Carlos Saura describes in his first feature film the attempt of a handful of Madrid street boys to break out of the wretchedness of their suburban milieu. The plan to make one of their ranks a successful bullfighter with the help of stolen pesetas fails. Highly recommended. ”Even the lexicon of international films is not short of praise:“ Semi-documentary study of a social fringe group in the Franco state of the post-war period, impressive in its precise observations and cautious in its moral judgment. The political and socio-critical relevance arises from the incorruptible view of a neglected milieu beyond bourgeois norms. "
Web links
- The street boys in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 153/1967, pp. 212–213.
- ↑ Lexicon of international films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 from 1988, p. 3628.