Details
Los Golfos (Limited Edition) Blu-Ray (UK Import)
Radiance
Pre-Order - Release Date: 15.09.2025
Original title: Los Golfos
Year: 1960
Country: Spain
Region code: A/B/C
Content: Blu-Ray
EAN: 5060974682591
Image: 1.37:1 (1080p)
HDR: -
Audio: Spanish - TBA
Subtitles: English
Rating: -
Genre: Drama
Cast: Manuel Zarzo, Luís Marin, Oscar Cruz
Director: Carlos Saura
Synopsis:
A group of poor youths tear around Madrid pulling scams and petty crimes. As one of their gang prepares to perform in a serious bullfighting competition, they plan a heist that will raise the money to finance their entry. Breaking with tradition by filming in the streets and utilizing documentary techniques to give the film an urgent resonance, Carlos Saura and producer Pere Portabella ( Viridiana ) were announced as a powerful new force in Spanish cinema when the film was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Suffering curtailed distribution by Francoist censorship, this new restoration reinstates previously removed footage and presents the film as originally intended.
Extras:
- Restored in 4K in 2024 by Filmoteca Española in collaboration with Films 59 at Digital and Electronic Systems laboratory from the 35mm acetate negative, 35mm prints and other intermediate photochemical materials. Restoration supervised by Javier Rellán and Patricia Uceda. Funding provided by ICAA/Ministry of Culture
- Introduction by author and former director of Filmoteca Catalunya Esteve Riambau (2025, 22 mins)
- Interview with filmmaker and curator Ehsan Khoshbakht on Los golfos , its influences and makers (2025, 17 mins)
- Censored scenes - scenes affected by censorship are presented alongside notes from the censorship committee and Carlos Saura (2025, 13 mins)
- Two early short films by Saura: La llama , about a solider leaving for war (1955, 7 mins) and Sunday afternoon , about an oppressed live-in maid (1957, 34 mins)
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Vincent Wild
- Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Mar Diestro-Dópido, reprints of original documents including committee notes on the script and a detailed breakdown of the restoration process.
