Los Olvidados [SEP] director
Los Olvidados
Los Olvidados (, Spanish for "The Forgotten Ones"), known in the U.S. as The Young and the Damned, is a 1950 Mexican film directed by Luis Buñuel.
Óscar Dancigers, the producer, asked Buñuel to direct this film after the success of the 1949 film "El Gran Calavera". Buñuel already had a script ready titled "¡Mi huerfanito jefe!" about a boy who sells lottery tickets. However, Dancigers had in mind a more realistic and serious depiction of children in
also won the FIPRESCI International Critics' Award. After receiving these accolades, the film was reissued in Mexico where it ran for two months to much greater acceptance and profit. "Los olvidados" and its triumph at Cannes made Buñuel an instant world celebrity and the most important Spanish-speaking film director in the world. In 2003, "Los olvidados" was recommended by UNESCO for inclusion in the Memory of the World Register, calling it: "the most important document in Spanish about the marginal lives of children in contemporary