Movie Type: Urban Drama, Juvenile Delinquency Film
Themes: Kids in Trouble
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
Ricardo Duque - Art Director, Victor Manuel Gaviria - Director, Victor Manuel Gaviria - Editor, Luis Alberto Restrepo - Editor, German Arrieta - Composer (Music Score), Rodrigo Lalinde - Cinematographer, Victor Manuel Gaviria - Producer, Elsa Basquez - Screenwriter
