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Young Cain (1959)

2h 2m

Running Time

Young Cain (1959)

Name: Young Cain
Genre: Drama
Released: 1959-10-05

2h 2m

Running Time

Plot.

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.

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Cast & Crew.

Carlota Ureta Zambrano

Berta Moncayo

Enrique Alzugaray

Rafael Briceño

Édgar Jiménez

Orángel Delfín

Milagros del Valle

Pedro Hurtado

Luis Gerardo Tovar

Virgilio Galindo

Román Chalbaud

Director / Screenplay / Theatre Play

Ramiro Vega

Cinematography

Juana Jacko

Editor

Eduardo Serrano Torres

Music

Eduardo Serrano

Composer

Eduardo Andersen

Sound Editor

Ariel Severino

Art Direction

Media.

Details.

Release Date
October 5, 1959

Original Name
Caín Adolescente

Status
Released

Running Time
2h 2m

Genres
Drama

Last updated: 2025-02-26

This Movie Is About.

pregnancy

poverty

motherhood

life in the slums

neorealism

Wiki.

Adolescence of Cain (Spanish: Caín Adolescente) is a 1959 Venezuelan film and the first film of the Venezuelan filmmaker Román Chalbaud. It was based on his homonymous theatre play. The widow Juana (Carlota Ureta Zamorano) moves to the slums of Caracas with her son Juan (Edgar Jimenez). The film follows the impact of poverty on their relationships.

The film has been described as "historically and artistically significant" in many ways.