| Ayer me echaron del pueblo | |
| Director: | Jorge Gaitán Gómez |
| Producer: | Alfonso Acevedo |
| Screenplay: | Jorge Gaitán Gómez Alfonso Acevedo |
| Starring: | Camilo Medina Stella Suárez Francisco Amaya Carlos Barbosa |
| Music: | Jose A. Morales |
| Cinematography: | Hermino Barrera Carlos Pulido |
| Editing: | Jorge Gaitán Gómez |
| Studio: | Acevar Division Cinematográfica |
| Runtime: | 106 minutes |
| Country: | Colombia |
| Language: | Spanish |
Ayer me echaron del pueblo is a 1982 Colombian drama film directed by Jorge Gaitán Gómez, who also co-wrote the screenplay. The film was inspired by the eponymous song written by Jose A. Morales. The plot follows the bitter life of a family of peasants forced to move to the city.[1]
Inspired by the lyrics of a popular nostalgic song, the film tells the story a family that is forced to leave their rural environment and escape to the big city due to pressure from a powerful landowner who deprives them of their meager properties. Overcome by the difficulties in their new hostile urban environment, the family of peasants descends into a tragic circle of poverty. Trying to survive the man falls from underemployment to delinquency; the wife from working as a housekeeper to prostitution and their children end up in the stormy life of street children.