Ayer me echaron del pueblo
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Jorge Gaitán Gómez
Screenplay by	Jorge Gaitán Gómez Alfonso Acevedo
Produced by	Alfonso Acevedo
Starring	Camilo Medina Stella Suárez Francisco Amaya Carlos Barbosa
Cinematography	Hermino Barrera Carlos Pulido
Edited by	Jorge Gaitán Gómez
Music by	Jose A. Morales
Production company	Acevar Division Cinematográfica
Release date	April 1982 (1982-04)
Running time	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.

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

• Fundación Patrimonio Fílmico Colombiano. Nieto, Jorge (edit), Largometrajes Colombianos En Cine y Video: 1915-2004, Fundación Patrimonio Fílmico Colombiano, Ministerio de Cultura, 2006, ISBN 9589551025

• Ayer me echaron del pueblo at IMDb

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