The Brute ( El bruto )

The Brute (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: El bruto
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
77 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1953 and produced in:
Mexico ( Latin America, Mexico )

Directed By:
Luis Bunuel

Written By:
Luis Bunuel
Luis Alcoriza

Actors:
Pedro Armendáriz ..... Pedro
Katy Jurado ..... Paloma
Rosa Arenas ..... Meche
Andrés Soler ..... Andrés Cabrera
Roberto Meyer ..... Carmelo González
Beatriz Ramos ..... Doña Marta
Paco Martínez ..... Don Pepe
Gloria Mestre ..... María
Paz Villegas ..... María's mother
José Muñoz ..... Lencho Ruíz
Diana Ochoa ..... Lencho's wife
Ignacio Villalbazo ..... María's brother
Jaime Fernández ..... Julián García
Raquel García ..... Doña Enriqueta
Lupe Carriles ..... Maid

Synopsis:

The great screen surrealist Luis Buñuel co-wrote and directed this dark, bitterly witty satire. A group of people in formal dress arrives at an elegantly appointed home for a dinner party. However, once dinner is over and the guests retire to the drawing room, they discover that the servants have gone away, and for some reason they cannot leave. There is no explanation why -- there are no locked doors or barred windows preventing them from going home -- but the guests are convinced that they're stranded. Left to their own devices, they slowly but gradually degenerate into genteel savagery, taking an axe to a water pipe for drinking water, killing and eating a sheep that was to be part of the post-dinner entertainment, hiding the bodies of dead guests in the closet, dabbling in witchcraft, and burning the furniture. Buñuel's dry, quixotic wit is abundantly displayed in this film. Leading the cast was Silvia Pinal, the renowned actress who starred in several of Buñuel's Mexican films (she was married to noted producer Gustavo Alatriste, who produced several films with Buñuel). Other than the short subject Simon of the Desert, El Angel Exterminador proved to be Buñuel's last film made in his adopted homeland.

The Brute (El Bruto) is a bold, brutal and blistering melodrama starring two of Mexico's finest actors, and is the highlight of Buñuel's Mexican period. A brutal landlord hires a powerfully built but simple minded slaughterhouse worker (Pedro Armandariz Maria Candelaria, Three Godfathers) to evict unwanted tenants, but things soon get complicated when he falls for the landlord s seductive wife played by award-winning actress Katy Jurado (Broken Lance, High Noon).

A Bunuel melodrama about a man conned into harassing tenants that his boss wants evicted. Other complications along the line are his seduction by the boss's mistress and his falling in love with a girl whose father he has accidentally murdered.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 20 March, 2011.

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