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Los Olvidados (1950)
"Los olvidados" (original title)

 -  Crime | Drama  -  24 March 1952 (USA)
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A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent and crime-filled life in the festering slums of Mexico City, and the morals of young Pedro are gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others...

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Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 12 wins & 4 nominations. See more awards »

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Cast overview:
Estela Inda ...
La madre de Pedro
Miguel Inclán ...
Don Carmelo, el ciego
Alfonso Mejía ...
Pedro
Roberto Cobo ...
El Jaibo
Alma Delia Fuentes ...
Meche
Francisco Jambrina ...
El director de la escuela granja
Jesús Navarro ...
El padre de Julián (as Jesús García Navarro)
Efraín Arauz ...
Cacarizo
Sergio Villarreal
Jorge Pérez ...
Pelon
Javier Amézcua ...
Julián
Mário Ramírez ...
Ojitos
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A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent and crime-filled life in the festering slums of Mexico City, and the morals of young Pedro are gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others... Written by Michael Brooke <michael@everyman.demon.co.uk>

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A Motion Picture Masterpiece From Mexico

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24 March 1952 (USA)  »

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Los Olvidados  »

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1.37 : 1
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UNESCO has launched the Memory of the World Programme to prevent collective amnesia calling upon the preservation of the valuable archive holdings and library collections all over the world and ensuring their wide dissemination. This film and Fritz Lang's Metropolis were the first two movies (and in 2004, the only ones) recognized in this special way. See more »

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Don Carmelo, el ciego: I hope they'll kill every one of them before they born!
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An extremely cruel response to the sentimental social comment of Neo-realism…

Atheist, Marxist, Freudian, Surrealist, anarchist, fetishist, satirist, or Spaniard, Luis Buñuel was all these or more… One of the greatest of all filmmakers, Buñuel expressed an extraordinary personal vision of the world through an exceptional self-effacing special taste, creating a body of work unequaled in its abundance of meaning and its power by any other…

In 1946, Buñuel moved to Mexico where, between more conventional assignments, he summed up his creativity with a vengeance… His first masterpiece of this prolific period, "The Young and the Damned" was a masterpiece of social surrealism and the founding work of third world barrio repulsion…

Portraying the distress of delinquents in MexicoCity's streets, he admitted the effects of shockingly cruel environment but declined to glamorize his victim-heroes: the gang torments a blind beggar who is himself a skillful paedophile, while a Freudian dream the most 'innocent' boy fights a friend for his mother' s sexual favors…

The film is powerful enough to make a one firm man weep or encourage a true-believer to lose hope… Once seen, its disturbing images can never be forgotten…


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