Lute: Forge On or Die
Release Date: 1987-09-19
Overview: 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.
Rating: 5.7 / 10
Cast
Imanol Arias
as Eluterio Sánchez 'El Lute'
Victoria Abril
as Chelo
Antonio Valero
as Raimundo Medrano
Carlos Tristancho
as Juan José Agudo
Diana Peñalver
as Esperanza
Crew
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Vicente Aranda - Director
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Vicente Aranda - Screenplay
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Joaquín Jordá - Screenplay
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Eleuterio Sánchez - Writer
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José María Cunillés - Producer
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