The River and Death

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The River and Death (Spanish: El río y la muerte) is a 1954 Mexican film. It was written by Luis Alcoriza and directed by Luis Buñuel.^[1] The film is an adaptation of Miguel Álvarez Acosta's 1952^[2] novel Muro blanco en roca negra (White Wall on a Black Rock).^[3][4]

Cast

• Columba Domínguez – Mercedes
• Miguel Torruco – Felipe Anguiano
• Joaquín Cordero – Gerardo Anguiano
• Jaime Fernández – Romulo Menchaca
• Víctor Alcocer – Polo Menchaca
• Silvia Derbez – Elsa
• José Elías Moreno – Don Nemesio
• Carlos Martínez Baena – Don Julian
• Alfredo Varela – Chinelas (as Alfredo Varela Jr.)
• Miguel Manzano – don Anselmo

Background

The film, an adaptation of a novel about blood revenge that has lasted for several generations, is so country-specific that the audience at the Venice Film Festival thought it was a comedy.^{[citation needed]} Buñuel takes great pains in his autobiography to show that the despicable events portrayed in the film were even surpassed by reality.^{[This quote needs a citation]}

References

Bibliography

• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

External links

• The River and Death at IMDb