Land Without Bread (1933)

Original title

Las Hurdes

Directed by

Luis Buñuel

Genre

short film, documentary film, silent film, pseudo-documentary

Country

France, Spain

Runtime

30 min

Rated

18

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 173 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This 1933 silent pseudo-documentary by Luis Bunuel follows people living in the isolated Spanish region of Las Hurdes. It shows their harsh daily lives, poverty, and struggles with disease and scarce resources.

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What happens

Las Hurdes: Tierra Sin Pan (English: Land Without Bread or Unpromised Land) is a 1933 French-language Spanish pseudo-documentary (ethnofiction) directed by Luis Buñuel and co-produced by Buñuel and Ramón Acin. The narration was written by Buñuel, Rafael Sánchez Ventura, and Pierre Unik, with cinematography by Eli Lotar. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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