Land Without Bread

Land Without Bread

Infobox Film
name = Las Hurdes


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director = Luis Buñuel
producer = Ramón Acín
Luis Buñuel
writer = Luis Buñuel
Rafael Sánchez Ventura
Pierre Unik
narrator =
starring = Abel Jacquin
Alexandre O'Neill
music = Darius Milhaud
Johannes Brahms
cinematography = Eli Lotar
editing = Luis Buñuel
distributor =
released = December 1933
runtime = 27 mins
country = flagicon|Spain Spain
language = French
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amg_id = 1:28164
imdb_id = 0023037

"Las Hurdes: Tierra Sin Pan" (1932), (English language: "Land Without Bread" or "Unpromised Land") is a 27-minute-long documentary film directed by Luis Buñuel and co-produced by Buñuel and Ramon Acin. The narration was written by Buñuel, Rafael Sanchez Ventura, and Pierre Unik, with cinematography by Eli Lotar.

The film focuses on the Las Hurdes region of Spain, the mountainous area around the town La Alberca, and the intense poverty of its occupants. Buñuel, who made the film after reading the ethnographic study "Las Jurdes: étude de géographie humaine" (1927) by Maurice Legendre, took a Surrealist approach to the notion of the anthropological expedition. The result was a travelogue in which the narrator’s extreme (indeed, exaggerated) descriptions of human misery of Las Hurdes contrasts with his flat and disinterested manner.

Although some film scholars describe it as a documentary, "Land Without Bread" is actually an early (some might say prescient) parody of the barely invented genre of documentary filmmaking, according to anthropologist Jeffrey Ruoff [Ruoff, Jeffrey. [http://www.dartmouth.edu/~jruoff/Articles/EthnographicSurrealist.htm An Ethnographic Surrealist Film: Luis Buñuel's Land Without Bread.] Visual Anthropology Review 14, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 1998), 45-57] . The film was originally silent, though Buñuel himself narrated when it was first shown. A French narration by actor Abel Jacquin was added in Paris in 1935. Buñuel used extracts of Johannes Brahms's Symphony No. 4 for the music.

Buñuel slaughtered at least two animals to make "Las Hurdes". He ordered an ailing donkey to be covered with honey so he could film it being stung to death by bees. Similarly, his crew shot a mountain goat and threw its carcass from a cliff for another sequence.

The film was banned in Spain from 1933 to 1936.

There is a Spanish-language dubbed version spoken by Francisco Rabal

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