Jose Saavedra Movies

Gregorio is set in Peru, where an impoverished rural family hopes to improve its lot in the big city of Lima. The squalor of ghetto life is hardly relieved by the back-breaking, low-paying jobs open to the family's father. In the tradition of DeSica's Shoeshine, Gregorio, the youngest son, tries to find work in the streets, but this serves only to drive a wedge between himself and his mother. Eventually, Gregorio, cut off from his family and everything he holds dear, descends into juvenile delinquency. Gregorio was a joint effort of the Group Chaski, an aggregation of Peruvian documentary filmmakers: hence, the presence of six names in the director's credits. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi