Movie: Lute: Forge On or Die

Top 10 Billed Cast

Imanol Arias
Imanol Arias

Eluterio Sánchez 'El Lute'

Victoria Abril
Victoria Abril

Chelo

Antonio Valero
Antonio Valero

Raimundo Medrano

Carlos Tristancho
Carlos Tristancho

Juan José Agudo

Diana Peñalver
Diana Peñalver

Esperanza

Margarita Calahorra
Margarita Calahorra

La Madre de Chelo

Manuel de Blas
Manuel de Blas

Policía

Luis Marín
Luis Marín

Policía

Alicia Agut
Alicia Agut

Señora 1

José Luis Alexandre
José Luis Alexandre

Policía

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    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.

  • Release Date

    1987-09-19

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    5.806

  • Rating:

    2.9 starts
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    Español
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