The Delinquents (1960 film)

1960 film

The Delinquents

Directed by| Carlos Saura
Written by| Mario Camus
Carlos Saura
Daniel Sueiro
Produced by| Pere Portabella
Starring| Manuel Zarzo
Cinematography| Juan Julio Baena
Edited by| Pedro del Rey
Music by| Antonio Ramírez Ángel

Release dates

* May 1960 (1960-05)

(Cannes Film Festival)
1962 (Spain)

Running time

| 88 minutes
Country| Spain
Language| Spanish

The Delinquents (Spanish: Los golfos, also translated The Hooligans) is a 1960 Spanish neorealist[1] drama film directed by Carlos Saura. It was entered into the 1960 Cannes Film Festival.[2][3][4]

## Production

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Los golfos was filmed on location around Madrid (the first Spanish film filmed entirely on location), locations including the Legazpi market, the slums around the Manzanares and the Cementerio de la Almudena.[5]

## Plot

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Julián, Ramón, Juan, el Chato, Paco and Manolo are six Andalusian migrants from the depressed, suburban and shantytown outskirts of Madrid who survive off the product of their assaults, thefts and robberies. Only one of them, Juan, eventually works as a porter in the Legazpi fruit market, and it is him that the others try to help, in solidarity, to make his dream of being a bullfighter come true. Although they manage to collect the money that the intermediary asks for, everything goes wrong. Paco and El Chato are identified by a taxi driver who was the victim of a robbery while selling tickets for his friend's debut; Paco, fleeing from him, hides in a sewer and, at dawn, appears dead in a dunghill. In the afternoon, in the Plaza de Vista Alegre, the bullfight is held with a disastrous result: between boos and whistles, after several failed attempts, Juan manages to kill the bull.

## Cast

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* Manuel Zarzo as Julián
* Luis Marín as Ramón
* Óscar Cruz as Juan
* Juanjo Losada as El Chato
* María Mayer as Visi
* Ramón Rubio as Paco
* Rafael Vargas as Manolo
* Carmen Sánchez as Mujer cotilla ("Gossipy woman")

## Release

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Los golfos premiered at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival but was not released in Spain until 1962 due to the censorship regime.[6][7]

## Reception

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Los golfos is considered a classic film today, appearing on the British Film Institute's list of "10 great films set in Madrid;" Maria Delgado writing that "The use of untrained actors, a raw documentary feel and recognisable outdoor locations […] give the film both immediacy and resonance."[5]

In Blood Cinema: The Reconstruction of National Identity in Spain, Marsha Kinder wrote of Los golfos that "The fact that no fathers appear in the film shows an ideological departure from the Fascist glorification of the patriarchal family and its idealization of the bond between fathers and sons and also speaks to the historical reality of so many Spanish fathers having been killed in the Civil War."[8]

## References

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1. ^ "LOS GOLFOS | Festival de Cine de Sevilla". Festiva de Sevilla.
2. ^ "Festival de Cannes: The Delinquents". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 15 February 2009.
3. ^ "Los GOLFOS (1959)". BFI. Archived from the original on 5 May 2016.
4. ^ "The Delinquents" - via mubi.com.
5. ^ a b "10 great films set in Madrid". BFI. 11 August 2016.
6. ^ "Los golfos | Tabakalera". www.tabakalera.eus. "Los golfos, Carlos Saura, Spain, 1959,…where it was premiered in 1960 but the film couldn't premiered in Spain until three years later…"
7. ^ "Los Golfos – HOME". HOME (Manchester). 16 March 2014. Retrieved 11 January 2024. "Finished in 1959 and nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1960, Los Golfos was not released until 1962 due to a bitter battle with the Spanish film censors."
8. ^ Kinder, M. (1993:99). Blood Cinema: The Reconstruction of National Identity in Spain. Switzerland: University of California Press.

## External links

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* The Delinquents at IMDb

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Films directed by Carlos Saura

* Cuenca (1958)
* The Delinquents (1960)
* Weeping for a Bandit (1964)
* The Hunt (1966)
* Peppermint Frappé (1967)
* Stress Is Three (1968)
* Honeycomb (1969)
* The Garden of Delights (1970)
* Ana and the Wolves (1972)
* Cousin Angelica (1973)
* Cría Cuervos (1975)
* Elisa, vida mía (1977)
* Blindfolded Eyes (1978)
* Mama Turns 100 (1979)
* Faster, Faster (1980)
* Blood Wedding (1981)
* Sweet Hours (1981)
* Antonieta (1982)
* Carmen (1983)
* The Stilts (1984)
* El amor brujo (1986)
* El Dorado (1988)
* The Dark Night (1989)
* ¡Ay Carmela! (1990)
* The South (1990)
* Marathon (1992)
* Sevillanas (1992)
* Outrage (1993)
* Flamenco (1995)
* Taxi (1996)
* Little Bird (1997)
* Tango (1998)
* Goya in Bordeaux (1999)
* Bunuel and King Solomon's Table (2001)
* Salomé (2002)
* The 7th Day (2004)
* Iberia (2005)
* Fados (2007)
* I, Don Giovanni (2009)
* Flamenco, Flamenco (2010)
* Zonda, folclore argentino (2015)
* J: Beyond Flamenco (2016)
* Renzo Piano, an Architect for Santander (2018)
* The King of All the World (2021)
* Las paredes hablan (2022)

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Mario Camus

Films directed|

* With the East Wind (1966, also written)
* Let Them Talk (1968, also written)
* The Wind's Fierce (1970, also written)
* Los días del pasado (1978, also written)
* La colmena (1982)
* The Holy Innocents (1984, also written)
* The House of Bernarda Alba (1987, also written)
* Shadows in a Conflict (1993, also written)
* The Color of the Clouds (1997, also written)
* The Field of Stars (2007, also written)

Films written|

* The Delinquents (1960)
* Weeping for a Bandit (1964)
* Werther (1986)
* Prince of Shadows (1991)
* The Bird of Happiness (1993)
* Beyond the Garden (1996)
* Roma (2004)

TV series directed|

* Fortunata y Jacinta (1980, also written)
* La forja de un rebelde (1990, also written)

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