by Jonathan Crow
synopsis
Argentinean director Elia Schneider spins this gritty urban drama about street kids and Venezuela's bloody gun and drug culture. Eleven-year old Oliver (Jose G. Rivas) is thrown out onto the streets of Caracas by his mother's boyfriend and soon finds himself embroiled in a drug war between crippled mobster Mocho (Alfredo Medina) and ambitious upstarts Pelao (Laureano Oliverez) and Cesar (Adolfo Cubas).
characteristics
- Kids In Trouble
- Urban-problems
- Venezuela
- Violence
- Street-kid
- Poverty
- Deprivation
- Drug Trade
- Abandon All Hope