An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932. Insalubrity, misery and lack of opportunities provoke the emigration of young people and the solitude of those who remain in the desolation of one of the poorest and least developed Spanish regions at that time.
Direction
Buñuel's deadpan cruelty as narrative voice
Editing
Brahms over starvation — the original ironic juxtaposition
Director
Luis Buñuel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'Las Hurdes Committee' commissioned this as serious propaganda; Buñuel's mockery nearly killed the aid campaign.
This invented the 'mockumentary' decades before Spinal Tap, while accidentally predicting reality TV's manufactured drama.
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