The illusion travels by tram

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Movie
German title The illusion travels by tram
Original title La ilusión viaja en tranvía
Country of production Mexico
original language Spanish
Publishing year 1953
length 82 minutes
Rod
Director Luis Buñuel
script Luis Buñuel,
Mauricio de la Sema,
José Revueltas,
Luis Alcoriza,
Juan de la Cabada
production Armando Orive Alba
music Luis Hernández Breton
camera Raúl Martínez Solares
cut Jorge Bustos
occupation
  • Lilia Prado : Lupita
  • Carlos Navarro: Caireles
  • Fernando Soto: Tarrajas
  • Agustín Isunza: Papá Pinillos
  • Miguel Manzano: Don Manuel
  • Guillermo Bravo Sosa: Don Braulio
  • José Pidal: Professor
  • Felipe Montoya: Head of the workshop
  • Javier de la Parra: Pablo
  • Paz Villegas: Doña Mechita

The illusion travels by tram (original title: La ilusión viaja en tranvía ) is a Mexican film by Luis Buñuel from 1953.

action

When the two tram employees Caireles and Tarrajas learn that their 133 line is to be suspended and replaced by a bus, they get drunk and decide during the course of the night to simply hijack the tram. First they bring some of their colleagues home and then they promote employees from the Mexico City slaughterhouse . After these passengers have disembarked again, they take the train to a disused track, where they sleep off their intoxication. When they wake up in the morning, they realize what nonsense they have been doing and they decide to take the train back to the deport immediately, but another train is blocking their way. Meanwhile, the night watchman at the depot informs Lupita, Tarrajas' sister, about the theft. She asks him not to report the theft and promises to fix the matter. Lupita can find the train, but even three of them do not manage to bring the train back unnoticed and so they continue to wander through the big city. Finally, to top it all off, Papá Pinillos, a now retired and formerly senior public transport official, gets on board. He sees through the fraud and reports the theft to the transport company, where no one believes him. After keeping Pinillos waiting in his anteroom for hours, the boss Don Manuel finally goes to the depot with Pinillos to check on runway 133. This is in its place and Don Manuel explains to Pinillos: “It is simply impossible to steal a train and drive around with it.” At the end of the film, Caireles and Lupita also meet, kiss and stroll away arm in arm.

criticism

“One of the secret main works of Mexican cinema - enchanting dream fulfillment, very light and everyday, as if nothing was happening. The loose episode structure anticipates the late Buñuel and connects halfway with a documentary about Mexico City, a social satire and a folk play with a sarcastic note. "
“ Inspired by a surrealist “ trick ”from Buñuel's youth, this wonderful film invites the viewer on a tour of Mexico City that no tourist gets to see. Along the way, Buñuel seeks to reveal some of the reasons for the economic crisis that went hand in hand with the modernization of the state: inflation , hamster purchases , usury and the fear of losing one's job. "

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The illusion travels with the tram in the database of film.at
  2. ↑ Bill Krohn / Paul Duncan (eds.): Luis Buñuel - Complete Films (2006), pp. 79f