Barrios bajos (1937)
- Directed by
- Pedro Puche
- Genre
- melodrama
- Country
- Spain
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Rating
- 7.7 of 10 from 3 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
The film shows the hard lives of poor people in 1930s Barcelona. It follows characters struggling with poverty and moral choices in the slums.
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What happens
Barrios bajos (The Slums) is a 1937 Spanish black-and-white film directed by Pedro Puche. It is a melodrama that has been noted to possess some formal elements that foreshadowed neorealist cinema. It was produced by a team of the anarchist Union of the Entertainment Industry Films (SIE Films) while film production in Barcelona was collectivized by the CNT. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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