La Hurdes , tierra con alma(2015) is a documentary about Las Hurdes, a well known and most empoverished area of Spain in the Thirties . The documentary is an answer to Luis Buñuel documentary ¨Land without bread (1933) about the same region with their traditional custom , changes in the style of life and social habits. Its aim is to expose a view point about the soul of the region by showing two actors Jimmy Barnatán and Adriana Ugarte - whose uncle grandfather Eduardo Ugarte was Buñuel's friend- talking to local villagers. It depicts the region nowadays, including Alberca town , and the villages of Fragosa and Martilandram showing the ancient houses that Buñuel considered like shelled crustaceans .
There are several frames from Las Hurdes , Tierra sin pan , it was a shocking documentary (1933) about the unfortunate residents of a remote region living in extreme poorness . It was a surprising documentary in Luis Buñuel style that caused a big impact at the time, in fact it was banned by the Republican government for 1933-1939. It not is for all tastes, adding disagreeable images, but nonetheless masterfully done. It followed the Spanish Baroque tenebrism , similar to famous painters Zurbaran and Ribera . It starts showing the little location Las Albercas, in Extremadura, where the population amuse themselves seeing as some horse riders beheading roosters hanging in a cord. Near Albercas spread across some small villages whose unfortunate residents live in extreme distress , real poverty and usually living of beekeeping . After that, we are watching the extreme poorness and misery of these surrounding villages with a large number of distressed villagers, surviving a diet of beans and potatoes only, with goat meat available in some year season . We are seeing sick villagers by bonzo illness with swell on their necks , little kids dying and a deceased baby being hardly transported by the locals to a far cemetery. And how the peasants attempt to survive at whatever means by hardly ever cultivating along the rivers and without the most basic utilities. Wrenching documentary, graphic and depressing, including disgusting scenes with unfortunate people suffering, abandoned children, and others in extreme poorness and isolation. The movie title concerns Las Hurdes, an isolated land from the outside world with no bread, due to they don't eat cereals and they hardly ever live thanks to little products and short food . Famine, extreme starving, polluted waters result in disabled generations, showing various people with mental and physical disabilities, as dwarf, nutty villagers and others.
¨Las Hurdes Tierra sin pan¨ was produced by Ramón Arcin, an anarchist who was shot and dead during Spanish Civil War (1936-1938). Arcin won in lottery and gave an amount of money to Buñuel for the production of this almost surrealist documentary Las Hurdes, that's how he made his way into film history . As Buñuel stayed in Monastery of Batueca that a bit later on he wanted to buy . La Hurdes well directed by this great director surrealist/communist Luis Buñuel, however, being accused by critics to be a documentary excessively manipulative and to carry out an animal slaughter. And eventually prohibited by the Republican government and international embassies and Gregorio Marañon himself panned severely it . Buñuel defended, as he stated that he attempted to deliver a provoking message. After making this film, it was shown in the Museum of Paris along with Picasso's Guernica . The exiled Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel also shot in Spain other films as Tristana , Viridiana and his last film : Obscure object of desire. The documentary will appeal to Luis Buñuel enthusiasts. Essential and indispensable watching.
There are several frames from Las Hurdes , Tierra sin pan , it was a shocking documentary (1933) about the unfortunate residents of a remote region living in extreme poorness . It was a surprising documentary in Luis Buñuel style that caused a big impact at the time, in fact it was banned by the Republican government for 1933-1939. It not is for all tastes, adding disagreeable images, but nonetheless masterfully done. It followed the Spanish Baroque tenebrism , similar to famous painters Zurbaran and Ribera . It starts showing the little location Las Albercas, in Extremadura, where the population amuse themselves seeing as some horse riders beheading roosters hanging in a cord. Near Albercas spread across some small villages whose unfortunate residents live in extreme distress , real poverty and usually living of beekeeping . After that, we are watching the extreme poorness and misery of these surrounding villages with a large number of distressed villagers, surviving a diet of beans and potatoes only, with goat meat available in some year season . We are seeing sick villagers by bonzo illness with swell on their necks , little kids dying and a deceased baby being hardly transported by the locals to a far cemetery. And how the peasants attempt to survive at whatever means by hardly ever cultivating along the rivers and without the most basic utilities. Wrenching documentary, graphic and depressing, including disgusting scenes with unfortunate people suffering, abandoned children, and others in extreme poorness and isolation. The movie title concerns Las Hurdes, an isolated land from the outside world with no bread, due to they don't eat cereals and they hardly ever live thanks to little products and short food . Famine, extreme starving, polluted waters result in disabled generations, showing various people with mental and physical disabilities, as dwarf, nutty villagers and others.
¨Las Hurdes Tierra sin pan¨ was produced by Ramón Arcin, an anarchist who was shot and dead during Spanish Civil War (1936-1938). Arcin won in lottery and gave an amount of money to Buñuel for the production of this almost surrealist documentary Las Hurdes, that's how he made his way into film history . As Buñuel stayed in Monastery of Batueca that a bit later on he wanted to buy . La Hurdes well directed by this great director surrealist/communist Luis Buñuel, however, being accused by critics to be a documentary excessively manipulative and to carry out an animal slaughter. And eventually prohibited by the Republican government and international embassies and Gregorio Marañon himself panned severely it . Buñuel defended, as he stated that he attempted to deliver a provoking message. After making this film, it was shown in the Museum of Paris along with Picasso's Guernica . The exiled Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel also shot in Spain other films as Tristana , Viridiana and his last film : Obscure object of desire. The documentary will appeal to Luis Buñuel enthusiasts. Essential and indispensable watching.
