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Spanish | El río y la muerte |
Directed by | Luis Buñuel |
Written by | Luis Alcoriza |
Produced by | J. Ramón Aguirre, Armando Orive Alba |
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Cinematography | Raúl Martínez Solares |
Edited by | Jorge Bustos |
Music by | Raúl Lavista |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
Country | Mexico |
Language | Spanish |
The River and Death (Spanish: El río y la muerte) is a 1954 Mexican film. It was written by Luis Alcoriza and directed by Luis Buñuel.[1] The film is an adaptation of Miguel Álvarez Acosta's 1952[2] novel Muro blanco en roca negra (White Wall on a Black Rock).[3][4]
The film, an adaptation of a novel about blood revenge that has lasted for several generations, is so country-specific that the audience at the Venice Film Festival thought it was a comedy.[citation needed] Buñuel takes great pains in his autobiography to show that the despicable events portrayed in the film were even surpassed by reality.[5]
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