El Bruto, the strong one
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | El Bruto, the strong one |
| Original title | El Bruto |
| Country of production | Mexico |
| original language | Spanish |
| Publishing year | 1952 |
| length | 81 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Luis Buñuel |
| script | Luis Buñuel, Luis Alcoriza |
| production | Gabriel Castro, Sergio Kogan |
| music | Raúl Lavista |
| camera | Agustín Jiménez |
| cut | Jorge Bustos |
| occupation | |
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El Bruto, the Strong (Original title: El Bruto ) is a Mexican film directed by Luis Buñuel from 1952.
action
The landowner Andrés Cabrera wants to get rid of his tenants in order to sell the property for a profit. But Carmelo González manages to organize the tenants and together they defend themselves against the eviction. Then Cabrera hires the slaughterhouse worker Pedro, also known as "El Bruto" (the brute), who he has known personally for a long time, to intimidate the tenants. At the same time, Cabrera's wife Paloma makes sexual advances for the sturdy man and goes on an adventure with him. One night, Pedro makes his way into the settlement and inadvertently kills Carmelo. Things get complicated when Pedro soon meets Carmelo's daughter Meche and falls in love with her. Because the jealous Paloma now wants to take revenge on Pedro and tells her husband that he was raped by Pedro. Cabrera dies in an argument between the two former companions. Finally, Pedro is shot dead by the police.
background
Because the producer Buñuel had the script he wrote in collaboration with Alcoriza rewritten, the originally planned plot can no longer be understood. However, it is certain that the two co-authors, who had already written the script for the film The Forgotten , planned a kind of continuation of their first project. This can be seen in the roles of Pedro and Meche, who are among the main actors in both films.
criticism
The lexicon of international films judged the film to be a "pessimistic ballad, the socio-critical dimension of which is covered by a melodramatic love story".
literature
- Bill Krohn / Paul Duncan (eds.): Luis Buñuel - Complete Films . Cologne: Taschen GmbH , 2005 ISBN 3-8228-3374-6
Web links
- El Bruto, the Strong in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bill Krohn / Paul Duncan (eds.): Luis Buñuel - Complete Films (2006), p. 77
- ↑ El Bruto, the Strong. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 12, 2020 .