La Hija Del Engaño
Luis Buñuel
Don Quintín is an honest and modest travelling salesman. One day he surprises his wife with her lover and decides to throw her out. She takes this opportunity to tell him that he is not the father of their daughter Marta. He abandons the child with an unknown drunkard, and becomes overcome with bitterness...
With : Fernando Soler, Alicia Caro, Fernando Soto " Mantequilla ", Rubén Rojo, Nacho Contla, Amparo Garrido, Lily Aclemar
Screenplay : Luis Buñuel, Janet Alcoriza, d'après la saynette "Don Quintin l'amer" de Carlos Arniches
Image : José Ortiz Ramos
Sound : Jesús González G.
Music : Manuel Esperón
Editing : Carlos Savage
Decors : Pablo Galván
Screenplay : Luis Buñuel, Janet Alcoriza, d'après la saynette "Don Quintin l'amer" de Carlos Arniches
Image : José Ortiz Ramos
Sound : Jesús González G.
Music : Manuel Esperón
Editing : Carlos Savage
Decors : Pablo Galván
Production : Ultramar Films, Oscar Dancigers
Distribution: Colifilms
Distribution: Colifilms
1951 was a very active year for Buñuel since he made three films. La Hija del Engaño (The Daughter of Deceipt) is a remake of a Spanish film shot in 1935, that was produced by Buñuel. The film is inspired by a work by Carlos Arniches, which was highly appreciated by the Spanish public. The two scriptwriters "Mexicanised" the subject making the character more macho than intrepid. Despite the character's bitterness and the fatalism of his destiny, Buñuel often manages to take the film to lighter register: Don Quintin's two acolytes are made fun of and are presented as two fall guys, leaving the possibility in the film for burlesque and optimistic sequences.