The Brute

Feb 5, 1953

1h 21m

★ 6.9

Overview

A tough young man, who helps to kick poor people out of their houses, falls in love with a girl. She lives with her father in the building about to be demolished.

Genres

Drama

Crime

Production Companies

Internacional Cinematográfica

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Cast

Pedro

Pedro Armendáriz

Paloma

Katy Jurado

Meche

Rosita Arenas

Andrés Cabrera

Andrés Soler

Don Pepe

Paco Martínez

María

Gloria Mestre

Carmelo González

Roberto Meyer

Doña Marta

Beatriz Ramos

Mamá de María

Paz Villegas

Lencho Ruíz

José Muñoz

Esposa de Lencho

Diana Ochoa

Vecino

Ignacio Villalbazo

Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash. A man, stripped of his identity, dies in bed with actors expressing his agony. A cheerful, innocent young man walking a city street in a time of war pays a price for this innocence. A couple talks about cinema while it watches another couple talk of love and truth on the eve of one character's return to Cuba. Striking students take over a university classroom; an argument follows about revolution or incremental change.

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