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El ángel exterminador (1962)
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Luis Buñuel (screenplay)
Release Date:
21 August 1967 (USA)
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Plot:
The guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave. full summary | add synopsis
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Unknown Power
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2 wins
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1 nomination
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(3 articles)
The Exterminating Angel/Simon of the Desert
(From PasteMagazine. 27 February 2009, 7:18 AM, PST)
Two From Buñuel, "W."
(From IFC. 17 February 2009, 10:41 AM, PST)
(From PasteMagazine. 27 February 2009, 7:18 AM, PST)
Two From Buñuel, "W."
(From IFC. 17 February 2009, 10:41 AM, PST)
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Silvia Pinal | ... | Leticia 'La Valkiria' | |
| Enrique Rambal | ... | Edmundo Nobile | |
| Claudio Brook | ... | Julio, Mayordomo; Steward | |
| José Baviera | ... | Leandro Gomez | |
| Augusto Benedico | ... | Carlos Conde; Doctor | |
| Antonio Bravo | ... | Sergio Russell | |
| Jacqueline Andere | ... | Alicia de Roc | |
| César del Campo | ... | Alvaro, Coronel; Colonel | |
| Rosa Elena Durgel | ... | Silvia | |
| Lucy Gallardo | ... | Lucía de Nobile | |
| Enrique García Álvarez | ... | Alberto Roc | |
| Ofelia Guilmáin | ... | Juana Avila | |
| Nadia Haro Oliva | ... | Ana Maynar | |
| Tito Junco | ... | Raúl | |
| Xavier Loyá | ... | Francisco Avila |
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The Exterminating Angel (USA)
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95 min
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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Out of all the films in Luis Buñuel's Mexican/Spanish film period, this is the only film he had complete creative control over.
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Goofs:
Boom mic visible: After the butler trips in the dining room, the lady of the house follows him into the kitchen. While they speak the boom mic can clearly be seen at the bottom of the screen, extending out from under a table.
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Referenced in Buñuel y la mesa del rey Salomón (2001)
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This film, constitutes the absolute surrealist masterpiece of all seasons. With unique virtuosity, Bunuel shows how easily a person makes his bonds and limits his freedom. Who are however these persons? They are those that made fortune without have worked never in their life or those, that with illegal ways acquired power and money. Naturally the one that puts unreal bonds in all the persons, with a view to check and dominate them, is the Church. The director accuse the high society and the Church and puts them to live as simple persons and they make things that they would never make. In this masterpiece Bunuel points out also the corruptness that exists in the society, which emanates from the Church and has expanded everywhere. It is not simply a film, it is a sociological approach of corrupted modern person.