Lute: Forge On or Die
1987-09-19 | 123 minutes
Plot Summary
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.
Cast
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Imanol AriasEluterio Sánchez 'El Lute'
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Victoria AbrilChelo
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Antonio ValeroRaimundo Medrano
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Carlos TristanchoJuan José Agudo
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Diana PeñalverEsperanza
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Manuel de BlasPolicía
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Luis MarínPolicía
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Alicia AgutSeñora 1
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Román AriznavarretaGuardia Civil en foto
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Luis BarberoSacerdote
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José Manuel CervinoRufino
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Antonio DechentTomás 'El Flaco'
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Francisco MaestreChato
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Santi PonsCamarero
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José María SacristánCarcelero
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José VivóMinistro
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