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Overview

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7.0/10   216 votes
Director:
Luis Buñuel
Writers:
Luis Alcoriza (writer)
Luis Buñuel (writer)
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Release Date:
5 December 1959 (France) more
Genre:
Drama more
User Comments:
Political games in El pao. more

Cast

 (Credited cast)
Gérard Philipe ... Ramón Vázquez
María Félix ... Inés Rojas
Jean Servais ... Alejandro Gual
Miguel Ángel Ferriz ... Gov. Mariano Vargas
Raúl Dantés ... Lt. García
Domingo Soler ... Prof. Juan Cárdenas
Víctor Junco ... Indarte
Roberto Cañedo ... Col. Olivares
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Luis Aceves Castañeda ... López, Gual's aide
Armando Acosta ... Manuel
Miguel Arenas
Edmundo Barbero ... Le procureur
Augusto Benedico ... Sáenz
Antonio Bravo ... Le juge
José Chávez
Emilio Garibay
Francisco Jambrina
Carlos León
Enrique Lucero ... Vila
José Muñoz
Alberto Pedret ... Valle
Pilar Pellicer ... Cárdenas' daughter
Ignacio Peón
David Reynoso ... Capt. Real
Andrés Soler ... Carlos Barreiro
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Additional Details

Runtime:
France:97 min | Mexico:109 min | Argentina:109 min | USA:97 min
Country:
France | Mexico
Language:
French
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Finland:K-16 | Argentina:16
Filming Locations:
Tepoztlán, Morelos, Mexico
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Remade as Fièvre monte à El Pao, La (1993) (TV) more

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6 out of 13 people found the following comment useful:-
Political games in El pao., 6 October 2001
Author: dbdumonteil

For a director like Luis Bunuel,this is a holding pattern movie.Bunuel is neither Costa Gavras nor Alan J Pakula and his political plot falls short of its goal.What's definitely lacking here is madness,the surrealism,almost present at least in one sequence,dear to the great Spanish artist.His art becomes ineffective when it deals with pure drama.The irony seems tamed,subdued.Maria Felix's part is sometimes some kind of Maupassant's "Boule de suif" (a character from the nineteenth century),sometimes some kind of thirties Marlene Dietrich (Sternberg's "dishonored").In a nutshell,originality is not this character's forte.Gerard Philipe (sadly,soon to die from cancer)is miscast and ill-at -ease ,in his part of "intellectual trying to sweeten the dictature".Nevertheless,he ended his career with something more commendable than the disastrous Vadim's "les liaisons dangereuses".

Coming after "Nazarin" "la mort en ce jardin" or "cela s'appelle l'aurore",and preceding such masterworks as "Viridiana" "Belle de Jour" or "Tristana", this fever is not so hot.

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