Young Cain
MovieTitle | Caín Adolescente |
User score | 5.3 |
Release date | Oct 5, 1959 |
Genre | Drama |
Director | Román Chalbaud |
Production country | Venezuela |
Production companies | Allegro Films (VE), Producciones Alfil |
Run time | 122 min. |
Juana moves with her son Juan from the country to Caracas in search of better work and educational opportunities. When they get there they have to live in a poor home in one of the slums located in the city's outskirts, where they encounter a horrible world full of promiscuity and misery, that is quite different from what they expected and that eventually will lead Juana to self-destruction and Juan to reconsider his life in the city.