"El Rata" is released from prison after having served a sentence for "political" crimes during Franco's dictatorship. Now, on the street and with very few opportunities to work, he decides to commit a crime again.
Acting
Danilo Mattei carries the exhaustion of a whole generation.
Direction
Lara Polop's documentary-adjacent grime hits different.
Director
Francisco Lara Polop
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of 'cine quinqui,' a raw Spanish genre about post-Franco juvenile delinquency that Hollywood ignored completely.
Danilo Mattei was primarily a stage actor; this rare screen role captured his haunted physicality before he returned to theater.
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