Screening this evening at 7pm at Casa América of the film Los olvidados, directed in 1950 by Luis Buñuel, as part of the Modern Classics cycle.
There will be a video presentation by Hugo Villa Smythe, General Director of Cinematographic Activities of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). With the screening of this film, Casa de América resumes its own programming cycle Modern Classics, dedicated to showing notable titles of Latin American cinema that have been restored, an opportunity for our spectators to revisit them or discover them for the first time. Starring Stella Inda, Miguel Inclán and Alfonso Mejía in their leading roles, Los olvidados tells how Jaibo, a teenager who escapes from a correctional institution, reunites with his friends in the neighbourhood. A few days later, Jaibo kills, in the presence of his friend Pedro, the boy who was supposedly to blame for sending him to the reformatory. From then on, the destinies of Pedro and El Jaibo will be tragically linked. Free admission. Seating capacity 20. Numbered tickets will be distributed at the box office of the Information Point (Plaza de Cibeles s/n) of Casa de América, one hour before the start of the activity.
