Lute: Forge On or Die
19872h 3mNo ratings yet
- Drama
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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 19, 1987
- Original language
- Spanish
- Spoken languages
- Spanish
- Countries
- Spain
- Cast
- José María Escuer,José María García,Rafael Vaquero,Agustín Guevara,Jorge Bosso,Raúl Fraire,Enrique Navarro,Antonio Valero,Antonio Dechent,Daniel Medránand 65 more
- Director
- Vicente Aranda
- Producer
- Isabel Mulá,José María Cunillés
- Cinematography
- Alfredo Mayo,José Luis Alcaine
- Music
- José Nieto
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0093458