BUÑUEL EN EL LABERINTO DE LAS TORTUGAS

BUÑUEL EN EL LABERINTO DE LAS TORTUGAS

Director: Salvador Simó

Year: 2018

Work: Animation Direction, Animation and Post-Production

Paris, 1930. Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel are the main figures of the surrealist movement, but Buñuel sees all doors being closed after the scandalous premiere of «The Golden Age», his first film. However, his good friend, the sculptor Ramón Acín, buys a lottery ticket with the crazy promise that, if he wins, he will pay for the documentary his friend wants to shoot about Las Hurdes, one of the poorest and most forgotten regions in Spain… Film about the filming in the Extremaduran region of Las Hurdes, by master Luis Buñuel, of his film «Las Hurdes, tierra sin pan», in 1933. Adapts the comic strip of the same name by Fermín Solís.