A surrealist film, a pseudo-documentary portrait of Las Hurdes, a remote region of Spain where civilisation has barely developed, showing how the local peasants try to survive without even the most basic utilities and skills.
Crew believed to be complete
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In this documentary short by director Luis Buñuel he travels to Las Hurdes, a remote region of Spain which was connected to the outside world only in 1922 with the completion of a road. The residents of the area - spread across several villages - live in poverty and in isolation from the outside world. They survive mostly on a diet of potatoes and beans with meat available only a few days a week. In fact, they eat goat meat only when one of the animals dies. Inbreeding results in a disproportionately large number of people with mental disabilities. The title refers to the fact that the residents did not know how to make bread.
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Las Hurdes, tierra sin pan
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Tierra sin pan
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Land Without Bread
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Land Without Bread
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Terre sans pain
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Luis Buñuel was not above slaughtering several animals to deliver his message; he ordered the ailing donkey to be spread with honey so he could film it being stung to death by bees. Nor was the mountain goat falling off the mountain an accident, shot by Buñuel's crew for the desired sequence.
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In the sequence where the mountain goat falls to its death, a puff of smoke can be seen on the side of the screen. This is from a gunshot by a crew member, who shot the goat so that it would fall and be filmed as if it 'accidentally' fell off of the mountain.
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Edited into
Origins of the 21st Century (2000).
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Symphony No. 4 in E minor Op. 98
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