Long Live the Hobos

Long Live the Hobos — Plot

One day in 1930, José Américo Ghezzi ("Bepo")—an unemployed anarchist stonemason—leaves his hometown, not to return until 1955. For twenty-five years, he wanders with no direction other than the path of the railway tracks, joining the silent world of the "crotos"—itinerant laborers—where he meets "the Frenchman," a mentor who leaves an indelible mark on his life. Back home, his friends and a woman await him, weaving the fabric of their own lives. Sixty years later, facing the camera, he relives his romances and his worldview in a kind of collage of perspectives and dreams, centered on the fundamental question: "Is freedom possible?"

• Release date
• March 25, 1995
• Runtime
• 75 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Ana Poliak

Long Live the Hobos — Cast

J

Jose Americo Ghezzi

F

Filiberto Satti

U

Uda Conti

M

Mario Penone

H

Héctor Wollands

P

Pascual Vuotto

H

Hugo Nario Pedro Loeb