Los Olvidados
Luis Buñuel
On leaving borstal "El Jaibo" becomes the leader of a gang of children from a poor neighbourhood in the outskirts of Mexico. They make repeated attacks. But El Jaibo wants revenge on Julian, who he accuses of having grassed on him. In front of Pedro, El Jaibo kills Julian, who he believes to be a traitor, but is soon overwhelmed with remorse and desperately tries to get back on the straight and narrow...
With : Stella Inda, Miguel Inclán, Alfonso Mejía, Roberto Cobo, Alma Delia Fuentes, Francisco Jambrina, Jesús García Navarro, Efraín Araúz, Javier Amezcua, Mario Ramírez, Charles Rooner
Screenplay : Luis Buñuel, Luis Alcoriza
Image : Gabriel Figueroa
Sound : Jesús González Gancy
Music : Rodolfo Halffter sur des thèmes de Gustavo Pittaluga
Editing : Luis Buñuel, Carlos Savage
Screenplay : Luis Buñuel, Luis Alcoriza
Image : Gabriel Figueroa
Sound : Jesús González Gancy
Music : Rodolfo Halffter sur des thèmes de Gustavo Pittaluga
Editing : Luis Buñuel, Carlos Savage
Production : Ultramar Films, Oscar Dancigers, Jaime Menasce
Distribution: Les Films Sans Frontières
Distribution: Les Films Sans Frontières
José de la Colina, co-writer of a book of interviews with Buñuel, said that it was with Los Olvidados (The Forgotten) that Buñuel's cinema was "reborn", following a period of almost 15 years during which he had not made anything "personal". When the film was released, the Mexicans criticised Buñuel of painting a black picture of things, whereas the French communists, who were very closely connected to the director, accused him of become bourgeois. Despite this the film was presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 1951, where he won the award for best director and the international critics prize. Originally Los Olvidados was inspired by Vittorio De Sica's Sciuscia (Shoe-Shine), which films street kids from Rome. Impressed by its darkness and realism, Luis Buñuel composed his film around this model.