Death in the Garden
1956 film
- 21 September 1956 (1956-09-21) (France)
- 9 June 1960 (1960-06-09) (Mexico)
Running time
Spanish
La mort en ce jardin ("Death in the Garden") a.k.a. Diamond Hunters is a 1956 adventure film by director Luis Buñuel, based on a novel by José-André Lacour, that stars Simone Signoret, Charles Vanel and Michel Piccoli, with additional dialogue by Raymond Queneau. Set in an unidentified South American country, it recounts the bloody suppression by the corrupt governing regime of an insurrection by illegal diamond miners, after which five disparate fugitives take to the jungle in search of safety.
Plot
When a settlement of illegal diamond miners is broken up by soldiers, in revenge they attack and burn down the army headquarters in the nearest town. Next day, when reinforcements arrive, most of the surviving miners are rounded up to be shot. On a river boat, five people escape the carnage: a pacifist miner, his deaf-mute daughter, the local madame he wants to marry, a Catholic priest, and a wanted adventurer. When pursued by the army, they take to the jungle. There, the struggle for survival starts eroding their identities and in most cases their will to live. The adventurer becomes the resourceful leader, while the miner goes out of his mind and kills both the madame and the priest. After killing the miner, only the adventurer and the girl are left to find freedom together.
Cast
- Simone Signoret - Djin, the madame
- Charles Vanel - Castin, the miner
- Georges Marchal - Shark, the adventurer
- Michel Piccoli - Father Lizardi, the priest
- Michèle Girardon - María Castin, the deaf-mute
- Tito Junco - Chenko
- Raúl Ramírez - Álvaro (as Raul Ramirez)
- Luis Aceves Castañeda - Alberto (as Luis-Aceves Castañeda)
- Jorge Martínez de Hoyos - Captain Ferrero (as Jorge Martinez de Hoyos)
- Alberto Pedret - Second Lieutenant Jiménez
- Marc Lambert - Miner
- Stefani - Miner
Analysis
Death in the Garden proposes a sort of psychological mirror-image of Franco's Spain from which Buñuel exiled himself, with rebellions and oppressors galore.[2]
References
External links
- Death in the Garden at IMDb
- Death in the Garden at Eurochannel
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- Un Chien Andalou (1929)
- L'Age d'Or (1930)
- Land Without Bread (1933)
- Gran Casino (1947)
- The Great Madcap (1949)
- Los Olvidados (1950)
- Susana (1951)
- Daughter of Deceit (1951)
- Mexican Bus Ride (1952)
- A Woman Without Love (1952)
- El Bruto (1953)
- Él (1953)
- Illusion Travels by Streetcar (1954)
- Wuthering Heights (1954)
- Robinson Crusoe (1954)
- The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955)
- The River and Death (1955)
- Cela s'appelle l'aurore (1956)
- Death in the Garden (1956)
- Nazarín (1959)
- La Fièvre Monte à El Pao (1959)
- The Young One (1960)
- Viridiana (1961)
- The Exterminating Angel (1962)
- Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)
- Simon of the Desert (1965)
- Belle de Jour (1967)
- The Milky Way (1969)
- Tristana (1970)
- The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
- The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
- That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
- Little Ashes (2008 film)
- Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles (2018 film)
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