La escalinata(1950)
La escalinata... gente que sube y que baja... lo mismo que en la vida.
Pablo returns to the neighborhood where he spent the early years of his life, searching for Juanito, but he does not find him. His sister Delia tells him that Juanito has lost his job and, in his desperation, has turned to crime. It is considered as the first Venezuelan and Latin American neorealist film.
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