13:15 A goat is scared with a gunshot while climbing down cliff, causing it to fall to its death... Immediately followed by the staged the death of a donkey, by smearing it in honey and knocking over two beehives.
As a Extremaduran I must say. This documentary was intentionally exagerated for dramatic or political purposes, I don't know. Las Hurdes were miserable, isolated and very underdeveloped. But Bunyuel narrates is as if they were uncivilized and living literally in the garbage. They were not much poorer than other Spanish villages at that time with similar geographical conditions and subsistence economy. Plus the scene of the goat and the donkey were staged by the director and in the case of the donkey he literally blames the Hurdanians. It's constant in the film this attitude of presenting the villagers as savages while proclaiming themselves as the providers of civilization. Which kind of sucks when they were the kind of people capable of shooting a goat to make it fall from a cliff or let a donkey agonize under the bees just for recording a documentary. Guess who was the savage there.
That's the point this documentary it was a political ploy and a criticism of documentaries at the time treating other impoverished people in foreign countries as "uncivilized" or "savage". In fact, it was banned for 3 years in Spain because of the politics surrounding the documentary.
This is the single most difficult thing I have ever sat through. I realized large portions of this are staged and politicized but I really hate the thought with that little girl actually died from an oral infection.
@@almirclubpenguin No. Buñuel made it to show the reality of most villages in Spain over the centuries in which the Christian church and the nobility lived as gods while the rest of the poor population didn't know anything else other than misery, hunger and pain.
@@pacoperez1012 I didn't say that what I mentioned was the only purpose of this movie. Just as any masterpiece, Land Without Bread isn't limited to only one possible interpretation
hi to all my goldsmiths baddies watching this for the film social module, read V. Sobchak (2014) ‘The Dialectical Imperative of Luis Buñuel’s Las Hurdes in B. K Grant and J. Sloniowski (eds) Documenting the Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video Detroit: Wayne University Press (nb ‘Las Hurdes’ is another title for ‘Land without Bread’) for a rlly good interpretation and contextualisation of the film
Luis buñuel mis respetos como director y guionistas
Thank you for this upload.
13:15 A goat is scared with a gunshot while climbing down cliff, causing it to fall to its death... Immediately followed by the staged the death of a donkey, by smearing it in honey and knocking over two beehives.
this is what i came here for
I was curious how he ever managed to shoot that fall off scene. that's so cruel if you're right.
@@vivazapata1962 It wasn't that they just scared the goat, they shot it directly. The meat was then given as recompense to those of the village.
THEY ACTUALLY KILLED THE GOAT!?
You guys know that he filmed this scene in that way to criticize how "real" documentaries sometimes just pretend to be real, right?
I came here after watching that animated film
Wait what animated film???
@@JohnPazThey probably mean Bunuel in the Labyrinth of Turtles - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buñuel_in_the_Labyrinth_of_the_Turtles
... " Foghorn Leghorn"🐓
Thank you for sharing.
The greatest indictment of human and animal suffering ever made. Only Alain Resnais's ' Night and Fog ' is equal to it.
There are real instances of people living in worse conditions in some parts of the world. This was tragic, but I was expecting much worse.
As a Extremaduran I must say. This documentary was intentionally exagerated for dramatic or political purposes, I don't know. Las Hurdes were miserable, isolated and very underdeveloped. But Bunyuel narrates is as if they were uncivilized and living literally in the garbage. They were not much poorer than other Spanish villages at that time with similar geographical conditions and subsistence economy.
Plus the scene of the goat and the donkey were staged by the director and in the case of the donkey he literally blames the Hurdanians. It's constant in the film this attitude of presenting the villagers as savages while proclaiming themselves as the providers of civilization. Which kind of sucks when they were the kind of people capable of shooting a goat to make it fall from a cliff or let a donkey agonize under the bees just for recording a documentary. Guess who was the savage there.
these are very interesting claims. are you sure these are true? if so, the savage is definitely on the civilized side.
@@vivazapata1962 www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/film/2000/sep/09/books.guardianreview
That's the point this documentary it was a political ploy and a criticism of documentaries at the time treating other impoverished people in foreign countries as "uncivilized" or "savage". In fact, it was banned for 3 years in Spain because of the politics surrounding the documentary.
It's satire.
Lol no it wasn't "satire" it was what it was
so tragic and beautiful
Ержан Насанов whats beautiful about it?
This is the single most difficult thing I have ever sat through. I realized large portions of this are staged and politicized but I really hate the thought with that little girl actually died from an oral infection.
it isn't a real documentary tho. Buñuel made it to criticize how some documentaries are made
@@almirclubpenguin No. Buñuel made it to show the reality of most villages in Spain over the centuries in which the Christian church and the nobility lived as gods while the rest of the poor population didn't know anything else other than misery, hunger and pain.
@@pacoperez1012 I didn't say that what I mentioned was the only purpose of this movie. Just as any masterpiece, Land Without Bread isn't limited to only one possible interpretation
@@almirclubpenguin it is a staged documentary addressing the real misery of the spanish people at this time (1933)
People focus on the 2 o 3 fake scenes, when everything else in the documentary (the important part, the misery of the region) is true
... It's not about the Winning The Rooster 🐓 is Told... It's the Taking Part That Matters Eh
It's almost like Nanook Of The North. The people are real but the story is bullshit.
hi to all my goldsmiths baddies watching this for the film social module, read V. Sobchak (2014) ‘The Dialectical Imperative of Luis Buñuel’s Las Hurdes in B. K Grant and J. Sloniowski (eds) Documenting the Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video Detroit: Wayne University Press (nb ‘Las Hurdes’ is another title for ‘Land without Bread’) for a rlly good interpretation and contextualisation of the film
not a goldsmith baddie but ur still saving my degree