Lute: Forge On or Die

Movie

Drama

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.

Date: 09/19/1987

Rating: 5.9

Cast: Imanol Arias, Victoria Abril, Antonio Valero, Carlos Tristancho, Diana Peñalver, Margarita Calahorra, Manuel de Blas, Luis Marín, Alicia Agut, José Luis Alexandre, Mari Carmen Alvarado, Román Ariznavarreta, Luis Barbero, Paco Catalá, José Manuel Cervino, Antonio Dechent, Francisco Maestre, Santi Pons, José María Sacristán, José Vivó, Manuel Zarzo, Agustín Guevara, Raúl Fraire, Máximo Astray, Jorge Bosso, Charly Bravo, José Enrique Camacho, Anastasio Campoy, José Canalejas, Ignacio Carreño, Saturno Cerra, José Cerro, Francisco Clement, Vicente del Águila, Amador Dobarganes Ruiz, Jesús Enguita, Mabel Escaño, José María Escuer, Pedro Falla, José María Gambín, José María García, Chema Gil, Rafael Hernández, María Jesús Hoyos, José María Labernié, José Luis Lemos, Mery Leyva, Javier Lozano, Arturo López, Carlos Marcet, Felipe Martín Puertas, Fernando Martín, Daniel Medrán, Enrique Navarro, Isabel del Palacio, Ricardo Palacios, Miguel Palenzuela, José Ramón Pardo, Raúl Pazos, Francisco Piquer, Álvaro Quiroga, Paco Racionero, Ramón Reparaz, Antonio Ross, Manuel Salgueró Luque, Yelena Samarina, Óscar San Juan, José Segura, Mario Siles, Rubén Tobías, Manuel Torremocha, Alfonso Vallejo, Rafael Vaquero, Francisco Vidal, José Yepes

Imanol Arias