Movie Details
Original Language:Spanish
Executive Producers:Isabel Mulá
Production Companies:MGC Producciones Cinematográficas y Audiovisuales Multivideo TVE
Lute Forge On or Die
Audience Score
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
