Country: Angola
Year: 2007
Duration: 97'
The film is the story of a generation of thieves who reached their peak in the 1960s and in 1970s in Mexico and who are currently serving sentences in prison. It is also the story of the Mexican criminal underworld in that time, its codes of ethics and behaviour, the diverse “categories” of the offenders who settled the city’s streets, the alliances of police authorities that allowed them to go on with their illegal activities, the treasons that came as a consequence of such alliances and the price that they wound up paying for it. “Some years ago, being a delinquent required developing a skill in order to be a worthy member of the family. Delinquency was a trade that was inherited from father to son; it was taught the way a potter is taught how to make a vessel, with the help and experience of his teacher. Just like craftsmanship, delinquency in Mexico City was made up by families in the decades prior to the 1980s. Such family trade groups were named artegios.”
Biography
film director
Everardo González Reyes
(1971) studied for a BA in Social Communication at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Photography at the Escuela Activa de Fotografía, and Film at the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica. After realizing several feature short films, he began working as a director and cameraman for the TV series “México nuevo siglo,” where he has created several middle-length documentaries.
FILMOGRAFIA
Niña…canica (cm, 1995), Grinder (cm, 1996), Gladiola (cm, 1998), Zurcido invisible (cm, 2001), La canción del pulque (doc., 2003), Santa Rita (cm, doc., 2003), Lipu (mm, doc. 2003), La voz de la pobreza (mm, doc., 2004), El Apóstol y el Barón (mm, doc., 2005), El Carácter de la Lejanía (mm, doc., 2005), Vivir el Deserto (mm, doc., 2005), Mundo Tequila (cm, doc. 2005), Jalisco es México (doc., 2006), Los ladrones viejos (Las leyendas del Artegio) (doc., 2007).
Cast
& Credits
regia/director Everardo González
fotografia/director of photography Martín Boege, Everardo González, Gerardo Montiel Klint
montaggio/film editor Juan Manuel Figueroa
musica/music Rodrigo Garibay, Matías Barberis
suono/sound Matías Barberis
interpreti/cast Jorge Calva Márquez aka «Fantomas», Efraín Alcaráz Montes de Oca aka «El Carrizos», Raymundo Moreno Reyes aka «El Burrero», Arcadio Ocampo Anguiano aka «Xochi», tenente/lieutenant Mauro Morales, sergente/sergeant Marco Villarreal
produttore/producer Issa Guerra, Everardo González, Roberto Garza Angulo, Alejandro Molina
produzione/production Artegios
coproduzione/coproduction Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía, Arte 7, Filmoteca de la Unam, Hubert Bals Fund, Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Programa de Fomento a Proyectos y Coinversiones Culturales, Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica
fotografia/director of photography Martín Boege, Everardo González, Gerardo Montiel Klint
montaggio/film editor Juan Manuel Figueroa
musica/music Rodrigo Garibay, Matías Barberis
suono/sound Matías Barberis
interpreti/cast Jorge Calva Márquez aka «Fantomas», Efraín Alcaráz Montes de Oca aka «El Carrizos», Raymundo Moreno Reyes aka «El Burrero», Arcadio Ocampo Anguiano aka «Xochi», tenente/lieutenant Mauro Morales, sergente/sergeant Marco Villarreal
produttore/producer Issa Guerra, Everardo González, Roberto Garza Angulo, Alejandro Molina
produzione/production Artegios
coproduzione/coproduction Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía, Arte 7, Filmoteca de la Unam, Hubert Bals Fund, Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Programa de Fomento a Proyectos y Coinversiones Culturales, Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica