Las Hurdes. Tierra sin pan (Land Without Bread), 1933 - Luis Buñuel

Title: Las Hurdes. Tierra sin pan (Land Without Bread) Year: 1933 Director: Luis Buñuel Writer: Luis Buñuel, Rafael Sanchez Ventura, and Pierre Unik (André Breton) Runtime: 28 m. Released: 1936 Plot: Las Hurdes: Tierra Sin Pan (1933) is a 27-minute-long documentary (ethnofiction?) directed by Luis Buñuel and co-produced by Buñuel and Ramóo Acíi. The script was by Luis Buñuel, Rafael Sanchez Ventura, and Pierre Unik (André Breton), with cinematography by Eli Lotar. The film focuses on the impoverished inhabitants of Las Hurdes region of Spain, the mountainous area around the isolated town of La Alberca whose inhabitants were were so poor that bread was unknown. One of their main sources of income was taking in orphan children in return for a government subsidy. Buñuel made the film after reading Maurice Legendre’s ethnographic 1927 study Las Jurdes: étude de géographie humaine. The result was a surrealist travelogue in which the narrator’s exaggerated descriptions of human miser