Navajeros, Eloy de la Iglesia, Spain, 1980, 95', OVES , DCP.
Zarautz-born director Eloy de la Iglesia had already directed over twenty works for television and fifteen features when he made his first film about the world of delinquents. All that experience and his very special universe make him the most radical, ground-breaking director in terms of dealing with the world of the marginalized, juvenile delinquency and drugs. He had, for years, been depicting the sexual frustrations of a very traditionalist, catholic Spain, not to mention broken families, the breaking of established order. Thanks to all of that, his vision of lost youth combines, like no other director, pure existentialism and harsh social and political criticism. The film tells the story, once again based on real events, of el Jaro, leader of a band of young delinquents that live and operate on the outskirts of Madrid.
El zarauztarra Eloy de la Iglesia había dirigido más de cincuenta títulos para televisión y quince largometrajes cuando hizo su particular acercamiento al universo del cine quinqui.