Las Hurdes
Luis Buñuel
"This cinematographic essay on human geography was shot in 1932, just before the arrival of the Spanish Republic. In the opinion of geographers and travellers, the region you will visit, called Las Hurdes, is a barren and inhospitable region where man has to struggle hour by hour to survive". (Luis Buñuel)
Avec les voix de : Abel Jacquin
Screenplay : Luis Buñuel, inspiré d'un livre de Maurice Legendre
Image : Eli Lotar
Sound : Charles Goldblatt (texte intégré en 1937)
Music : Darius Milhaud
Editing : Luis Buñuel
Screenplay : Luis Buñuel, inspiré d'un livre de Maurice Legendre
Image : Eli Lotar
Sound : Charles Goldblatt (texte intégré en 1937)
Music : Darius Milhaud
Editing : Luis Buñuel
Production : Ramón Acín
Distribution: Les Films du Jeudi
Distribution: Les Films du Jeudi
Las Hurdes (Land Without Bread) is Buñuel's only documentary and is a raw and uncompromising film. If for some the film lays bare the soul and dignity of the Spanish people, for others it marks the absolute need for a change in the new Republic. The film, which was financed by Ramón Acín, an anarchist friend of Buñuel's, was banned until 1937, as the government criticised it for giving a pitiful description of Spain. Without a written screenplay, Buñuel went to the region 10 days before filming. What results is an impression of direct capture, of on-the-spot images from real life, even if Buñuel never hid the fact that he sometimes changed reality: he did not hesitate from shooting a goat with his revolver to illustrate his ideas. "The idea was to give an image of people's lives and everything had to be shown. There was a big difference between saying ‘sometimes a goat falls' and showing that it really did happen". (Luis Buñuel)