Young Cain

Young Cain (1959)

Caín Adolescente

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.

Date of release
1959-10-05
TMDB
6.8 / 10 (5)
Runtime
2h 2m
Genres
Drama
Director
Román Chalbaud

Casting

Interesting facts

Adolescence of Cain 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 moves to the slums of Caracas with her son Juan. The film follows the impact of poverty on their relationships.

Production

Caín Adolescente was Chalbaud's first film and one of only two he completed before the cinema industry forced him to move into television and return to the theatre for many years.

It was one of two films released as the Marcos Pérez Jiménez's military dictatorship fell, the premieres of which were described as "remarkable" and just preceding the diminishing influence that democracy had on filmmaking. Because it was produced during the dictatorship, the film is not government funded but independent.

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