Severin Films will release on Blu-ray The Perros Callejeros Trilogy. The three-disc set is scheduled to arrive on the market later this Summer.
Cine Quinqui – pronounced 'kinky' and short for quincallero, slang used to describe juvenile delinquents – was a series of neorealist dramas depicting the teenage crimewave that plagued post-Franco Spain. And while more than 30 Quinqui movies were produced between 1977 and 1985, the genre was defined – alongside Eloy de la Iglesia's NAVAJEROS/EL PICO films – by this shocking urban trilogy from writer/director José Antonio de la Loma.
Recognized as the original Quinqui, PERROS CALLEJEROS features a star-making performance by real-life street felon Ángel Fernández Franco as charismatic young hoodlum El Torete. De la Loma's adolescent antihero returns in PERROS CALLEJEROS II to battle an increasingly brutal world of robberies, prison and vengeance. In LOS ÚLTIMOS GOLPES DE EL TORETE, the titular gangster joins forces with the equally notorious El Vaquilla for a rampage that turns violent criminals into pop culture idols. Frank Braña (PIECES), Marta Flores (THE HOUSE BY THE EDGE OF THE LAKE), Xabier Elorriaga (THESIS) and Bernard Seray (THE DEVIL'S HONEY) co-star – along with dozens of actual quinquis – in these groundbreaking action hits, now scanned in 4K from their original camera negatives with English subtitles for the first time ever in North America.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
DISC ONE - PERROS CALLEJEROS
NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM
ORIGINAL SPANISH AND ENGLISH AUDIO TRACKS
La Mina After Midnight – Interview With Assistant Director Martin Ardanaz
Enter The Quinquiverse – Interview With Eduardo Conejero, Author Of Perros Callejeros: Una Pelicula Irrepetible
Other Worlds – Excerpt Of Interview With Actress Nadia Windell By Eduardo Conejero, From The Podcast Mis Películas...Fuera De Moda
The Italian Connection: Cine Quinqui And The Eurocrime Film – Interview With Film Scholar Dr. Andy Willis
If Every Cop Was Like You – Archival Interview Excerpt With Actor Victor Petit
Spanish Trailer
Italian Trailer
In Spanish, with English subtitles
REGION-FREE
DISC TWO - PERROS CALLEJEROS II
NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM
ORIGINAL SPANISH AND ENGLISH AUDIO TRACKS
Cinema Is An Endless Chase – Interview With Actor César Sánchez
Perra Callejera – Interview With Actress Teresa Giménez
The Handsome One – Interview With Actor Bernard Seray
Archival Interview With Actor And IN A GLASS CAGE Director Agustin Villaronga
Spanish Trailer
In Spanish, with English subtitles
REGION-FREE
DISC THREE - LOS ÚLTIMOS GOLPES DE EL TORETE
NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM
ORIGINAL SPANISH AUDIO TRACK
How We Lived – Interview With Actress Berta Cabré
Close Calls & Close Friends – Interview With Camera Assistant Paco Marin Andreu
Archival Zoom Interview With Actor Simón Andreu
Young Delinquents In A Young Democracy – Interview With Jorge González Del Pozo, Editor Of "Quinqui" Film In Spain: Peripheries Of Society And Myths On The Margins