Daughter of Deceit
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Directed byLuis Buñuel
Written byLuis Alcoriza
Produced byÓscar Dancigers
StarringFernando Soler
Alicia Caro
Fernando Soto
Rubén Rojo
Lily Aclemar
CinematographyJose Ortiz Ramos
Music byManuel Esperon
Release date
  • 29 August 1951 (1951-08-29) (Mexico)
Running time
78 minutes
CountryMexico
LanguageSpanish

Daughter of Deceit (Spanish: La hija del engaño) is a 1951 Mexican film directed by Luis Buñuel, written by Luis and Janet Alcoriza and starring Fernando Soler, Alicia Caro and Fernando Soto.[1] It is based on the farce Don Quintín, el amargao by Carlos Arniches and Antonio Estremera.[2]

The film is part of the "generic, assembly-line pictures that Buñuel was offered to direct" while he was making films in Mexico.[2] Buñuel had previously been a scriptwriter, although uncredited, for an earlier film adaptation of Don Quintín, el amargao made in his native Spain in 1935.[1][2][3][4][5] As a result, it is the only work of which Buñuel made two versions.

Plot

Don Quintin, a man who is always having economic problems, one day comes home to find his wife in bed with another man. He begins having doubts about the paternity of his daughter and decides to leave. Years later he decides to find her.

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References

  1. ^ a b Durgnat, Raymond (1977). Luis Bunuel. University of California Press. p. 171. ISBN 0-520-03424-4.
  2. ^ a b c Acevedo-Muñoz, Ernesto R. (2003). Buñuel and Mexico: The Crisis of National Cinema. University of California Press. p. 94. ISBN 0-520-93048-7.
  3. ^ Fuentes, Víctor (2000). Los mundos de Buñuel (in Spanish). Ediciones AKAL. p. 75. ISBN 84-460-1450-5.
  4. ^ Bermúdez, Xavier (2000). Buñuel: espejo y sueño (in Spanish). Ediciones de la Mirada. p. 122. ISBN 84-95196-13-1. Supondría para don Luis el segundo encuentro con dicha obra […] [It would suppose for Don Luis the second encounter with said work […]]
  5. ^ Filmhistoria (in Spanish). Vol. 10. Promociones y Publicaciones Universitarias. 2000. p. 80. La hija del engaño (1951), primera de esta serie de cintas, es una especie de remake de Don Quintín el amargao, la película producida años atrás en España por la empresa Filmófono y basada a su vez en un sainete de Carlos Arniches […] [La hija del engaño (1951), the first of this series of films, is a kind of remake of Don Quintín el amargao, the film produced years ago in Spain by the company Filmofono and based in turn on a farce by Carlos Arniches […]]

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