Rodrigo D: No Future

• Rating:
• Genre: Drama
• Movie Type: Urban Drama, Juvenile Delinquency Film
• Themes: Kids in Trouble
• Director: Victor Manuel Gaviria
• Main Cast: Ramiro Meneses, Carlos Mario Restrepo, Jackson Idrain Gallego
• Release Year: 1990
• Country: CO
• Run Time: 92 minutes

Plot

Rodrigo D (Ramiro Meneses) is a Colombian youth who aspires to join a punk-rock band. His musical skills are negligible, but Rodgrigo feels sympatico with the punkers: he's angry, alienated and destructive. A member of a motorcycle gang that robs and pillages neighboring communities (several of the "actors" were actual street kids, six of whom were killed after the movie was completed), Rodrigo ends up a "big man" only through use of brute force. He finally ends up in the notorious city of Medellin, where he finds it impossible to escape the drug-and-violence syndrome that he thought he'd left behind in the slums. Rodrigo D: No Future is of historical interest in that it was the first Colombian film to be entered in the Cannes Festival. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Ramiro Meneses - Rodrigo D.
• Carlos Mario Restrepo - Adolfo
• Jackson Idrain Gallego - Ramon

Wilson Blandon
Vilma Diaz - Rodrigo's Sister
Oscar Hernandez - Rodrigo's Father

Credit

German Arrieta - Composer (Music Score); Elsa Basquez - Screenwriter; Victor Manuel Gaviria - Director; Victor Manuel Gaviria - Editor; Victor Manuel Gaviria - Producer; Rodrigo Lalinde - Cinematographer; Luis Alberto Restrepo - Editor; Ricardo Duque - Art Director

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