Caluga o menta (1990)

Original title

Caluga o Menta

Directed by

Gonzalo Justiniano

Genre

drama film, crime film

Country

Chile

Runtime

1h 40m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of young friends in post-dictatorship Santiago survive on petty crime and street hustles. Their bond is tested as poverty and desperation push them toward more dangerous choices.

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What happens

Candy or Mint (Spanish: Caluga o Menta [translation: Toffee or Mint]), also known as El Niki, is a 1990 Chilean crime drama directed by Gonzalo Justiniano and one of the country's first post-Pinochet dictatorship films. In 1991 it became the first Chilean film to be nominated for the Goya Award in the category of best Ibero-American film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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