Luis Buñuel - Los Olvidados (1950) [Full DVD5] [2004]

The best known film of Buñuel's Mexican period, LOS OLVIDADOS looks unflinchingly at life in a Mexican slum. At the center of the story are Pedro, a young boy who is walking the line between delinquency and responsibility, and Jaibo, an older, charismatic boy who has already chosen the former path. Jaibo exerts his influence over almost every boy in the village, and when he accidentally murders the only good role model Pedro has and sleeps with Pedro's mother, it seems the path Pedro is to take has already determined itself. Full of offbeat images and symbolism, Buñuel mixes realism and surrealism in what became something of a trademark style for him, but the only other film Buñuel did that compares to the realism in this film is his documentary LAND WITHOUT BREAD. Like the Italian neo-realists, Buñuel used mostly non-professional actors and shot entirely on location. Constricted by a tight budget, Buñuel was not able to include a couple of surreal sequences he had originally conceived, but this is still one of Buñuel's most powerful films. Features the famous dream sequence where Pedro's mother floats after him with a raw piece of meat.







MOVIE:
DIRECTOR: Luis Buñuel
COUNTRY: Mexico
YEAR: 1950

Cast
Estela Inda
Miguel Inclán
Alfonso Mejía
Roberto Cobo
Alma Delia Fuentes
Jesús Navarro
Mário Ramírez
Javier Amézcua
Jorge Pérez

Credits
Director: Luis Buñuel
Screenplay: Luis Buñuel, Luis Alcoriza, Max Aub [dialogue collaborator (uncredited)], Juan Larrea [dialogue collaborator (uncredited)], Pedro de Urdimalas [dialogue collaborator (uncredited)]
Cinematography: Gabriel Figueroa
Production Design: Edward Fitzgerald
Sound: Jesús González Gancy
Editing: Carlos Savage
Original Music: Rodolfo Halffter, Gustavo Pittaluga


DVD:
DVD RELEASE: 2004
STUDIO: Alter Films, Televisa
SYSTEM: NTSC
SCREEN: 1.37:1
COLOR: Black and White
AUDIO: Spanish Dolby Digital Mono
SUBTITLES: English, Spanish
RUNTIME (MOVIE): 90 minutes
MENUS IN SPANISH


EXTRACTION:
ENGINE: DVD Fab + DVD Shrink
DVD: 1 Full Single-Layer DVD
FILE EXTENSION: VIDEO_TS Folder
FILE SIZE: 4 GBs

Disc Features (in Spanish)

* Alternate ending
* Photo Gallery
* Biographies
* Anecdotes
* Trailers