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Ayer me echaron del pueblo

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' Ayer me echaron del pueblo ' is a 1982 Colombian drama film directed by Jorge Gaitn Gmez. The film was inspired by the eponymous song written by Jose A. Morales. The plot follows the bitter life of a family of peasants forced to move to the city.Fundacin Patrimonio Flmico Colombiano, 'Largometrajes Colombianos En Cine y Video: 1915-2004' p. 107

Plot



Inspired by the lyrics of a popular nostalgic song, the film tells the story a family that is forced to leave their rural environment and escape to the big city due to pressure from a powerful landowner who deprives them of their meager properties. Overcome by the difficulties in their new hostile urban environment, the family of peasants descends into a tragic circle of poverty. Trying to survive the man falls from underemployment to delinquency; the wife from working as a housekeeper to prostitution and their children end up in the stormy life of street children.

Cast



*Camilo Medina

*Stella Surez

*Francisco Amaya

*Carlos Barbosa

*Hector Rivas

*Jose Saldarriaga

*Edgardo Roman

*Hugo Patio

Notes



References



*Fundacin Patrimonio Flmico Colombiano. Nieto, Jorge (edit), 'Largometrajes Colombianos En Cine y Video: 1915-2004', Fundacin Patrimonio Flmico Colombiano, Ministerio de Cultura, 2006,


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