The Beat of the Streets
- Original title
- El triunfo
- Year
- 2006
- Running time
- 122 min.
- Country
- Spain
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Mireia Ros. Novel: Francisco Casavella
- Cast
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- Juan Diego
- Ángela Molina
- Pep Cruz
- Marieta Orozco
- Miguel Sitjar
- Francisco Conde
- Javier Ambrossi
- Joaquín Gómez
- Jesús Cabrero
- Cesáreo Estébanez
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama
- Synopsis
- Barcelona, 1980s: in a tough urban neighbourhood inhabited by survivors and ruled by ex-legionnaires-Gandhi, Fontán and Andrade - who are fighting a war to control the streets -Nen and his friends Palito, Topo and Tostao dream of making it big in the world of rumba. But Nen discovers why his father, El Guacho- of whom all Nen has left is the memory of his brilliance as a rumba singer - disappeared many years earlier. He learns how the relationship between his mother, Chata, and Ghandi, leader of the neighbourhood, was connected to his father's disappearance, and so Nen is forced to balance his own desire for vengeance with his longing to triumph.
- Awards
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2006: Festival Málaga: Best Original Soundtrack
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