In tribute to Carlos Saura, Berlinale Classics released this 4K restoration in 2024, which highlights the reconstruction of the original audio. The richness of a soundtrack that is the lyrical hallmark of the film is recovered, with the unforgettable ‘Me quedo contigo’ by Los Chunguitos as the main track. Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlinale in 1981, this film is one of the last achievements of the alliance formed between Saura and the producer Elías Querejeta, as well as the director's personal and enigmatic approach to the so-called ‘cine quinqui’. In the suburbs of Madrid, the relationship between Pablo and Ángela emerges, who together with Sebas and Meca try to get money quickly to escape from the marginal environment in which they live, falling into a fast and dangerous spiral of delinquency, drugs, violence and self-destruction.
Carlos Saura
He was born in 1932 in Huesca and died in 2023 in Madrid. In his six decades of professional career he directed more than fifty films, becoming one of the most prestigious spanish filmmakers. In 1957 he graduated from the Official Film School. ‘Los golfos’, his first fiction feature film, screened at the Cannes Festival, where he would later win the Special Jury Prize in 1974 for ‘Cousin Angélica’, the Grand Jury Prize in 1976 for ‘Cría cuervos’ and two awards for ‘Carmen’ (1983). At the Berlin Festival he won two Silver Bears as best director for ‘The Hunt’ (1966) and ‘Peppermint Frappé’ (1967), and a Golden Bear for ‘Deprisa, deprisa’ (1981). He received three Oscar nominations and two more for the Césars, and won a Bafta and a Goya for best director and best script for ‘Ay, Carmela!’ (1990). In 2009, Seminci presented him with its Honorary Spike and in 2023 he won the Honorary Goya award.
Elías Querejeta PC, Les Films Molière, Consortium Pathé
CAST
Berta Socuéllamos, Jose Antonio Valdelomar González, José María Hervás Roldán, Jesús Arias, María del Mar Serrano, Consuelo Pascual, Yves Arcanel, André Falcon
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