Los Inundados
- Pirucho Gómez: Dolorcito Gaitán
- Lola Palombo: Óptima Gaitán
- María Adelina Vera: Pilar Gaitán
The Drowned (Los inundados ) is an Argentine film classic from 1961 by Fernando Birri.
Action
The Gaitán family - father Dolorcito, mother Óptima, the teenage daughter Pilar and her siblings - live in shacks in a poor settlement on the outskirts of Santa Fe. Like every year, the Rio Salado has flooded the area again so you knee-deep in the flat plane wading in water. Send The city authorities trucks that bring the parties concerned with their few belongings on a field course in the middle Santa Fez.
In a few days, elections were started are the " Accion popular " and the " Populismo democratico ". The city government consists of incompetent, corrupt bureaucrats who keep trite speeches before they distribute aid. The Gaitan see through that it is the politicians only briefly to her voice. After the electoral victory of their preferred party to celebrate the inundados how the Drowned are called omitted. Pilar falls in love with the boy Raul, who takes her virginity. Dolorcito rejects well-paid job offers; he considers as Inundado he was entitled to support. Two days later comes the eviction order. While most families can be transported away, the Gaitan stay in the cattle car, they inhabit. They embed themselves in the night. Surprised they realize the next morning that the car rolls through the countryside. There is a mistake in front of authorities, one decoupled from their wagon train and places them in a small provincial town. The residents provide food and consumables. Mother and father enjoying it, not having to work. When the authorities find their lost file, it will drive back to Santa Fe and refer back quarters in the edge settlement.
Awards
- At the International Film Festival in Venice in 1962 Fernando Birri was nominated for the Golden Lion and won the award for the best first work.
Criticism
" The multi-award -winning first feature film by the Argentine filmmaker, painter and poet Fernando Birri revealed with its mixture of poetry, melancholy and humor the influence of Italian neorealism. "