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| The Delinquents (Los Golfos) |
In his debut feature film, Carlos Saura cast youths from Madrid's slums to portray a gang who plan a robbery in order to bankroll one member's dreams of being a bullfighter.
Harried by the censors from script stage through to production,
The Delinquents was the first Spanish film shot completely on location.
Its revealing neorealist aesthetic tinged with elements of caustic melodrama and incisive humour found little favour with the Franco regime. It was the merits of this kind of film that Victor Erice passionately championed in
Nuestro Cine, a journal he co-founded whilst at film school.
