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Saturday 10.3.2001
The Prisoners of Buñuel
The Spanish director Luis Buñuel (1900-1983), is the father of surrealistic movies. His Jesuit-like education may explain his compulsive attraction to religious and rebellious themes.
Las hurdes - Land without Bread (1933) is a surrealistic document on how difficult life at its worst can be. The film is Luis Buñuel's harsh account of the poorest mountainous areas of Spain. Hungry people, hungry animals, midgets and lunatics are the result of hundred years of bad hygiene, misery, incest and hunger.
Ramon Gielingin made a documentary on the village Las Hurdes.
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In his award-winning document film The Prisoners of Buñuel (2000), Ramon Gieling visits the village of Las Hurdes and finds bitter people who are still fighting the reputation Buñuel gave them.
Las Hurdes - Tierra sin pan and The Prisoners of Buñuel
The Small Auditorium, Tampere Hall
on Sunday 11 March 2001 at 1 p.m.
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