Ratas, Ratones, Rateros is a 1999

1999 in film

The year 1999 in film involved several noteworthy events and has been called "The Year That Changed Movies". Several significant feature films, including Stanley Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut, Pedro Almodóvar's first Oscar-winning film All About My Mother, science fiction The Matrix, Deep...

 Ecuador

Ecuador

Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...

ian film directed by Sebastián Cordero

Sebastián Cordero

Sebastián Cordero is a film director, writer and editor, often recognized for his work in Ratas, Ratones, Rateros, his debut film which portrays the life in a poverty-stricken Ecuador...

 and starring Carlos Valencia and Marco Bustos. It wasn't widely released until 2001 or 2002. It was nominated for Best Film of the Year in 2001 by the Spanish Goya Awards.

The plot follows the life of Salvador (Bustos), a young petty thief from Quito

Quito

San Francisco de Quito, most often called Quito , is the capital city of Ecuador in northwestern South America. It is located in north-central Ecuador in the Guayllabamba river basin, on the eastern slopes of Pichincha, an active stratovolcano in the Andes mountains...

, after he is visited by his cousin Ángel (Valencia), an ex-convict with a bounty on his head.

Cast

• Simón Brauer
  Simón Brauer
  Simon Brauer is a photographer and cinematographer. He is also the author of the first Ecuadorian book on 3D photography, '. He contributed to several advertising agencies, magazines, films and books...
  
  ... J.C.
• Marco Bustos ... Salvador
• Cristina Dávila ... Mayra
• Fabricio Lalama ... Marlon
• Irina López ... Carolina
• Antonio Negret ... Martin
• Carlos Valencia ... Angel