Plot:

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.

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Actors - Crew

Imanol Arias
Eluterio Sánchez 'El Lute'

Victoria Abril
Chelo

Antonio Valero
Raimundo Medrano

Carlos Tristancho
Juan José Agudo

Diana Peñalver
Esperanza

Margarita Calahorra
La Madre de Chelo

Vicente Aranda
Director

Joaquim Jordà i Català
Screenplay

Eleuterio Sánchez
Writer

José María Cunillés
Producer

Isabel Mulá
Executive Producer

Teresa Font
Editor

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