El ángel exterminador [videorecording] / Janus Films ; Gustavo Alatriste presenta ; nueva versión con diálogos de Luis Buñuel ; cinedrama de Luis Alcoriza and Luis Buñuel ; director de fotografia, Gabriel Figueroa ; productor, Gustavo Alatriste ; director, Luis Buñuel.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Edition:
Special ed., fullscreen.
Publisher:
Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
c2008
Description:
2 videodiscs (93 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Silvia Pinal, Rosa Elena Durgel, Jacqueline Andere, José Baviera, Augusto Benedico, Luis Beristain, Antonio Bravo, Claudio Brook, César de Campo, Lucy Gallardo, Enrique García Álvarez, Ofelia Guilmain, Nadia Haro Oliva, Tito Junco, Xavier Loya, Xavier Masse, Ofelia Montesco, Patricia Moran, Patricia de Morelos, Bertha Moss, Enrique Rambal, Pancho Cordova, Angel Merino, Luis Lomeli, Guillermo A. Bianchi, Elodia Hernandez, Florencio Castello, Eric del Castillo, Chel Lopez, David Hayyad Cohen. Based on the story "Los náufragos de la calle de la Providencia" by Luis Alcoriza and Luis Buñuel. Originally released as a motion picture in 1962. Special features disc 2: "The last script: remembering Luis Buñuel", a 2008 documentary featuring Jean-Claude Carrière and Juan Luis Buñuel ; new interviews with filmmaker Arturo Ripstein and actress Silvia Pinal ; theatrical trailer ; a booklet featuring a new essay by film scholar Marsha Kinder and a reprinted interview with Buñuel.
Summary:
After a lavish dinner party in a stately mansion, the guests believe themselves unable to leave the premises. As the days pass, the elaborate facades of their social positions collapse and they are forced to live like animals. Finally discovering they are actually free to leave, they go to church to give thanks, where they are again trapped.
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