12 minutes of pure desperation that'll make you check your privilege at the door.
A very impoverished man wanders the cold and hostile city looking for cigarette butts. After being humiliated by rude people at a bar, he comes back to an isolated hut where he lives with a lazy man who refuses to abandon the place, which is more a lair for savage animals than a shelter for human beings.
Direction
Two directors, zero budget, maximum bleakness.
Practical Effects
That hut is genuinely disgusting. Method set design?
Director
Eloy González Gavilán
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Spain's late-Franco economic crisis, this amateur short captures the era's 'other' cinema — raw, regional, and politically invisible to censors who only looked for obvious dissent.
Directors González Gavilán and Aguirrezabal never made another feature; Calleja was a non-professional found in actual Madrid slums.
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