Ayer me echaron del pueblo

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.

Plot
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.

Cast

 * Camilo Medina
 * Stella Suárez
 * Francisco Amaya
 * Carlos Barbosa
 * Hector Rivas
 * Jose Saldarriaga
 * Edgardo Roman
 * Hugo Patiño