Land Without Bread


Las Hurdes Tierra Sin Pan 1933, English language Land Without Bread or Unpromised Land is a 27minutelong documentary film ethnofiction directed by Luis Buuel and coproduced by Buuel and Ramon Acin. The narration was written by Buuel, Rafael Sanchez Ventura, and Pierre Unik, with cinematography by Eli Lotar.

Buuel claimed I was able to film Las Hurdes thanks to Ramon Acin, an anarchist from Huesca,...who one day at a cafe in Zaragoza told me, Luis, if I ever won the lottery, I would put up the money for you to make a film. He won a hundred thousand pesetas...and gave me twenty thousand to make the film. With four thousand I bought a Fiat Pierre Unik came, under contract from Vogue to write an article and Eli Lotar arrived with a camera loaned by Marc Allegret.The movie is a documentary, parodying the exaggerated documentaries of travelers across the Sahara being filmed at the same time. One of Buuels points is that there are plenty of terrible subjects for a documentary right in Spain. ........

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