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'''''Las Hurdes: Tierra Sin Pan''''' (English: '''''Land Without Bread''''' or '''''Unpromised Land''''') is a 1933 [[pseudo-documentary]] ([[ethnofiction]]) directed by [[Luis Buñuel]] and co-produced by Buñuel and [[Ramón Acin]]. The narration was written by Buñuel, {{ill|Rafael Sánchez Ventura|es}}, and {{ill|Pierre Unik|es}}, with cinematography by [[Eli Lotar]]. |
'''''Las Hurdes: Tierra Sin Pan''''' (English: '''''Land Without Bread''''' or '''''Unpromised Land''''') is a 1933 [[pseudo-documentary]] ([[ethnofiction]]) directed by [[Luis Buñuel]] and co-produced by Buñuel and [[Ramón Acin]]. The narration was written by Buñuel, {{ill|Rafael Sánchez Ventura|es}}, and {{ill|Pierre Unik|fr||es}}, with cinematography by [[Eli Lotar]]. |
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| Las Hurdes | |
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| Directed by | Luis Buñuel |
| Written by | Luis Buñuel Rafael Sánchez Ventura Pierre Unik |
| Produced by | Ramón Acín Luis Buñuel |
| Starring | Abel Jacquin Alexandre O'Neill |
| Cinematography | Eli Lotar |
| Edited by | Luis Buñuel |
| Music by | Darius Milhaud Johannes Brahms |
Release date | December 1933 |
Running time | 27 mins |
| Country | Spain |
| Language | French |
Las Hurdes: Tierra Sin Pan (English: Land Without Bread or Unpromised Land) is a 1933 pseudo-documentary (ethnofiction) directed by Luis Buñuel and co-produced by Buñuel and Ramón Acin. The narration was written by Buñuel, Rafael Sánchez Ventura, and Pierre Unik, with cinematography by Eli Lotar.
Plot
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Cast
- Abel Jacquin (voice)
- Alexandre O'Neill (voice, dubbed version)
Production
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The film focuses on the Las Hurdes region of Spain, the mountainous area around the town of La Alberca, and the intense poverty of its occupants, who were so backwards and isolated that bread was unknown. A main source of income for them was taking in orphan children, for whom they received a government subsidy. Buñuel, who made the film after reading the ethnographic study Las Jurdes: étude de géographie humaine (1927) by Maurice Legendre, took a Surrealist approach to the notion of the anthropological expedition. The result was a travelogue in which the narrator’s extreme (indeed, exaggerated) descriptions of human misery of Las Hurdes contrasts with his flat and uninterested manner.[citation needed]
Buñuel claimed: "I was able to film Las Hurdes thanks to Ramon Acin, an anarchist from Huesca,...who one day at a cafe in Zaragoza told me, 'Luis, if I ever won the lottery, I would put up the money for you to make a film.' He won a hundred thousand pesetas...and gave me twenty thousand to make the film. With four thousand I bought a Fiat; Pierre Unik came, under contract from Vogue to write an article; and Eli Lotar arrived with a camera loaned by Marc Allégret."[1]
The movie is a pseudo-documentary, parodying the exaggerated documentaries of travelers across the Sahara being filmed at the same time.[2] One of Buñuel's points is that there are plenty of terrible subjects for a documentary right in Spain.[citation needed]
The film was originally silent, though Buñuel himself narrated when it was first shown.[citation needed] A French narration by actor Abel Jacquin was added in Paris in 1935.[citation needed] Buñuel used extracts of Johannes Brahms' Symphony No. 4 for the music.[citation needed]
Buñuel slaughtered at least two animals to make Las Hurdes. One Hurdano claimed that he arranged for an ailing donkey to be covered with honey so he could film it being stung to death by bees. Similarly, his crew shot a mountain goat that subsequently fell from a cliff for another sequence.[3]
Release
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Censorship
Land Without Bread provoked such an uproar in Spain - Ruoff calls it a "revolutionary film"[4] - that it was banned[3] from 1933 to 1936.
Reception
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Critical reception for Land Without Bread has been mostly positive. Ed Gonzalez from Slant Magazine awarded the film 4 out of 4 stars, writing, "Las Hurdes becomes a frightening call to arms, a fabulous open text that resists simple readings and questions humanity’s notion of progress."[5]
References
- ^ Jose De La Colina, Tomas Perez Turrent.Objects of Desire - Conversations with Luis Buñuel.Trans. Paul Lenti.Marsilio Publishers, 1992. ISBN 0-941419-68-1.
- ^ Ruoff, Jeffrey. An Ethnographic Surrealist Film: Luis Buñuel's Land Without Bread. Visual Anthropology Review 14, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 1998), 45-57
- ^ a b McNab, Geoffrey (8 September 2000). "Bunuel and the land that never was". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
- ^ Ruoff, Jeffrey. An Ethnographic Surrealist Film: Luis Buñuel's Land Without Bread. Visual Anthropology Review 14, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 1998), 45-57
- ^ Gonzalez, Ed. "Land Without Bread". Slant Magazine.com. Ed Gonzalez. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
External links
- Template:Amg movie
- Land Without Bread at IMDb
- Las Hurdes at Rotten Tomatoes
- Las Hurdes at the TCM Movie Database
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- Las Hurdes
- 1932 documentary films
- Spanish black-and-white films
- Filmed deaths of animals
- Films directed by Luis Buñuel
- French-language films
- Spanish silent films
- Spanish films
- Spanish short films
- Social realism in film
- Media bias controversies
- Mockumentary films
- Films scored by Darius Milhaud
- Spanish documentary films