Los Olvidados

Item

Title

Los Olvidados

Description

Los Olvidados (pronounced: [los olbiˈðaðos], Spanish for "The Forgotten Ones"), known in the U.S. as The Young and the Damned, is a 1950 Mexican film directed by Luis Buñuel.

Óscar Dancigers, the producer, asked Buñuel to direct this film after the success of the 1949 film El Gran Calavera. Buñuel already had a script ready titled ¡Mi huerfanito jefe! about a boy who sells lottery tickets. However, Dancigers had in mind a more realistic and serious depiction of children in poverty in Mexico City.

After conducting some research, Jesús Camacho and Buñuel came up with a script that Dancigers was pleased with. The film can be seen in the tradition of social realism, although it also contains elements of surrealism present in much of Buñuel's work.

It earned the Best Director award at the 1951 Cannes Film Festival. (Wikipedia)


Shelf Location: G.6

Date

November 9th 1950 (Mexico City)
March 24th 1952 (USA)

Format

Film

Identifier

2010.638.1
2010.638.2

Publisher

Ultramar Films

Original Format

16mm
2 reels

Duration

85min

producer

Óscar Dancigers
Sergio Kogan
Jaime A. Menasce

director

Luis Buñuel

Item sets

KSC Film Archive

Keene State Film Studies