Aventuras de Robinson Crusoe
Luis Buñuel
Robinson Crusoe is a slave dealer. Journeying to Africa, he is shipwrecked on a desert island. He has to learn how to organise himself and how to hunt to survive despite everything. One day he saves a man from a horde of cannibals. He christens him Friday...
With : Dan O'Herlihy, Jaime Fernandez, Felipe de Alba, Chel López, José Chávez, Emilio Garibay
Screenplay : Luis Buñuel, Philip Ansel Roll (Hugo Butler), d'après le roman de Daniel Defoe
Image : Alex Phillips
Sound : Javier Mateos
Music : Luis Hernandez Breton à partir de thèmes originaux d'Anthony Collins
Editing : Luis Buñuel, Carlos Savage, Alberto Valenzuela
Decors : Pablo Galbán
Screenplay : Luis Buñuel, Philip Ansel Roll (Hugo Butler), d'après le roman de Daniel Defoe
Image : Alex Phillips
Sound : Javier Mateos
Music : Luis Hernandez Breton à partir de thèmes originaux d'Anthony Collins
Editing : Luis Buñuel, Carlos Savage, Alberto Valenzuela
Decors : Pablo Galbán
Production : Ultramar Films, Oscar Dancigers, OLMEC (United Artists), Henry F. Ehrlich
Distribution: Théâtre du Temple
Distribution: Théâtre du Temple
To express isolation and solitude, Buñuel looked at the relationships between image and sound: at times the sounds are not justified by the image, at others there is a lack of correspondence between the two. The soundtrack is therefore highly crafted, even if paradoxically there is very little dialogue in the film. This film is Buñuel's first American co-production, and was written by Hugo Butler, one of the Hollywood scriptwriters on the McCarthy blacklist. Robinson Crusoe was also Buñuel's first film in colour. "None of the films I'd made in Mexico had had a shoot lasting more than three weeks. This one took me three months, because it was the continent's first film in Eastmancolor. Alex was a highly precautious professional and there were some days where we couldn't film a single shot. It was crazy; the film hung on Alex... and Alex hung on changes in light". (Luis Buñuel)