September 30, 2014 (Series 29:6) Luis Buñuel, VIRIDIANA (1961, 90 min) Directed by Luis Buñuel Written by Julio Alejandro, Luis Buñuel, and Benito Pérez Galdós (novel “Halma”) Cinematography by José F. Aguayo Produced by Gustavo Alatriste Music by Gustavo Pittaluga Film Editing by Pedro del Rey Set Decoration by Francisco Canet Silvia Pinal ... Viridiana Francisco Rabal ... Jorge Fernando Rey ... Don Jaime José Calvo ... Don Amalio Margarita Lozano ... Ramona José Manuel Martín ... El Cojo Victoria Zinny ... Lucia Luis Heredia ... Manuel 'El Poca' Joaquín Roa ... Señor Zequiel Lola Gaos ... Enedina María Isbert ... Beggar Teresa Rabal ... Rita Julio Alejandro (writer) (b. 1906 in Huesca, Arágon, Spain—d. 1995 (age 89) in Javea, Valencia, Spain) wrote 84 films and television shows, among them 1984 “Tú eres mi destino” (TV Luis Buñuel (director) Series), 1976 Man on the Bridge, 1974 Bárbara, 1971 Yesenia, (b. Luis Buñuel Portolés, February 22, 1900 in Calanda, Aragon, 1971 El ídolo, 1970 Tristana, 1969 Memories of the Future, Spain—d. July 29, 1983 (age 83) in Mexico City, Distrito 1965 Simon of the Desert, 1962 A Mother's Sin, 1961 Viridiana, Federal, Mexico) directed 34 films, which are 1977 That 1959 Nazarin, 1955 After the Storm, and 1951 Mujeres sin Obscure Object of Desire, 1974 The Phantom of Liberty, 1972 mañana. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, 1970 Tristana, 1969 The Milky Way, 1967 Belle de Jour, 1965 Simon of the Desert, 1964 José F. Aguayo (cinematographer) (b. José Fernández Aguayo, Diary of a Chambermaid, 1962 The Exterminating Angel, 1961 1911 in Madrid, Spain—d. May 11, 1999 (age 88) in Madrid, Viridiana, 1960 The Young One, 1959 Fever Mounts at El Pao, Madrid, Spain) was the cinematographer for 137 films and 1959 Nazarin, 1956 Death in the Garden, 1956 That Is the television shows, including 1996 “Gregorian Chant: Songs of the Dawn, 1955 The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz, 1954 Spirit” (TV Movie documentary), 1980 ...And the Third Year, He Illusion Travels by Streetcar, 1954 Robinson Crusoe, 1954 The Resuscitated, 1976 Los hijos de..., 1975 Olvida los tambores, River and Death, 1953 Wuthering Heights, 1953 El, 1953 El 1973 Goya (Documentary), 1973 It Happened at Nightmare Inn, bruto, 1952 A Woman Without Love, 1952 Mexican Bus Ride, 1970 The Man from O.R.G.Y., 1970 Tristana, 1966 Camino del 1951 Daughter of Deceit, 1951 Susana, 1950 Los Olvidados, Rocío, 1966 He Is My Man, 1964 Minnesota Clay, 1963 The 1949 The Great Madcap, 1947 Gran Casino, 1937 ¡Centinela, Blackmailers, 1961 Viridiana, 1960 Maribel and the Strange alerta!, 1936 ¿Quién me quiere a mí?, 1933 Land Without Bread Family, 1960 Una chica de Chicago, 1957 The Last Torch Song, (Documentary short), 1930 L'Age d'Or, and 1929 Un Chien 1952 Come Die My Love, 1946 Path Unknown, and 1945 Andalou (Short). Castañuela. Buñuel—VIRIDIANA—2 Silvia Pinal ... Viridiana (b. Silvia Pinal Hidalgo, September 12, Series), 1980 ¡Qué verde era mi duque!, 1980 En mil pedazos, 1931 in Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico) appeared in 106 films and 1979 Times of the Constitution, 1978 Soldiers, 1978 Mi mujer no television shows, some of which are 2013 The Last Call, 2010 es mi señora, 1978 El huerto del Francés, 1978 El último “A Woman of Steel” (TV Series, 143 episodes), 1989-2006 guateque, 1964-1977 “Novela” (TV Series, 35 episodes) 1977 “Mujer, casos de la vida real” (TV Series, 707 episodes), 1968 Secretos de alcoba, 1976 “Teatro estudio” (TV Series), 1976 La Guns for San Sebastian, 1965 Simon of the Desert, 1962 The espada negra, 1976 El secreto inconfesable de un chico bien, Exterminating Angel, 1961 Viridiana, 1961 Goodbye Mimi 1976 Las delicias de los verdes años, 1976 Esclava te doy, 1970- Pompon, 1959 The Follies of Barbara, 1958 The Man That 1976 “Estudio 1” (TV Series), 1975 Las bodas de Blanca, 1975 Pleases Me, 1956 La adúltera, 1955 Mortal Sin, 1950 El amor L'uomo che sfidò l'organizzazione, 1975 Pim, Pam, Pum... Fire!, no es ciego, 1950 The King of the Neighborhood, and 1949 El 1974 Barcelona Kill, 1974 Run, Run, Joe!, 1973 “Ficciones” (TV pecado de Laura. Series), 1973 Little Funny Guy, 1972 Tragic Ceremony, 1972 Dust in the Sun, 1972 Carta de amor de un asesino, and 1972 Francisco Rabal ... Jorge (b. Francisco Rabal Valera, March 8, Hector the Mighty. 1926 in Águilas, Murcia, Región de Murcia, Spain—d. August 29, 2001 (age 75) in Bordeaux, France) appeared in 214 films and TV shows, including 2001 Dagon, 2001 Alla rivoluzione sulla due cavalli, 2001 Just Run!, 1998 Talk of Angels, 1996 Oedipo alcalde, 1995 On Earth as It Is in Heaven, 1993 “Una gloria nacional” (TV Series, 10 episodes), 1993 La Lola se va a los puertos, 1986 The Bastard Brother of God, 1985 Padre nuestro, 1983 “Los desastres de la guerra” (TV Series, 6 episodes), 1980 Under Siege, 1980 “Fortunata y Jacinta” (TV Series, 10 episodes), 1975 Eye of the Cat, 1974 Death Will Have Your Eyes, 1972 La guerrilla, 1969 Simón Bolívar, 1968 Bloody Che Contra, 1965 Intimidad de los parques, 1964 The Other Woman, 1962 L'Eclisse, 1961 Death of a Bandit, 1948 Revelación, 1948 Alhucemas, 1947 Don Quijote de la Mancha, 1946 The Prodigal Woman, and 1946 El crimen de Pepe Conde. Fernando Rey ... Don Jaime (b. Fernando Casado Arambillet, September 20, 1917 in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain—d. March 9, 1994 (age 76) in Madrid, Spain) appeared in 241 films and television shows, including 1994 El cianuro... ¿solo o con leche?, 1994 Al otro lado del túnel, 1993 Madregilda, 1992 Después del sueño, 1992 “Blood and Dust” (TV Movie), 1991 “Don Quijote de la Mancha” (TV Series), 1989 “Il ricatto” (TV Series), 1989 “La moglie ingenua e il marito malato” (TV Movie), 1988 Scent of a Crime, 1988 Winter Diary, 1988 Moon Over Parador, 1988 The Tunnel, 1984 The Hit, 1981 Honey, 1981 Lady of the Camelias, 1979 Quintet, 1977 That Obscure Object of Desire, 1977 The Assignment, 1977 Eyes Behind the Wall, 1976 Striptease, 1976 Voyage of the Damned, 1976 Buñuel by Dali The Desert of the Tartars, 1976 A Matter of Time, 1975 French Connection II, 1975 Seven Beauties, 1975 Smiling LUIS BUÑUEL from World Film Directors V. I. Ed. John Maniacs, 1974 La femme aux bottes rouges, 1974 Say It with Wakeman, The H.W. Wilson Co., NY, 1987. Entry by Flowers, 1973 White Fang, 1972 The Discreet Charm of the Miriam Rosen Bourgeoisie, 1972 The Two Faces of Fear, 1972 Antony and Luis Buñuel, Spanish director, scenarist, and producer, Cleopatra, 1971 The French Connection, 1971 A Town Called was born in the in village of Calanda in Aragon. His father, Hell, 1970 Tristana, 1969 Guns of the Magnificent Seven, 1968 Leonardo, a native of the province had gone to Cuba in his youth Villa Rides, 1967 Young Rebel, 1967 Beyond the Mountains, with the Spanish military and stayed on to make his fortune as a 1966 Return of the Seven, 1966 El Greco, 1965 “Don Quijote hardware merchant. Returning home in 1898, at the age of forty- von der Mancha” (TV Mini-Series), 1965 Son of a Gunfighter, two, he met and married Maria Portoles, a seventeen-year-old 1962 Face of Terror, 1946 Misión blanca, 1945 Tierra sedienta, girl from a wealthy aristocratic family. Luis was the first of their and 1944 Eugenia de Montijo. three sons and four daughters; four months after his birth, the family moved to the town of Saragossa but retained a country house in Calanda, and the atmosphere of this “completely feudal José Calvo ... Don Amalio (b. Jose Calvo Salgado, March 3, village” as Buñuel referred to it, is often reflected in his films. (In 1916 in Madrid, Spain—d. May 16, 1980 (age 64) in Los Palmas later years, Buñuel liked to point out that although he had been de Gran Canaria, Spain) appeared in 151 films and television born in Calanda, he had been conceived in Paris.) shows, among them 1984 Carta a nadie, 1981 “Cervantes” (TV Buñuel—VIRIDIANA—3 Buñuel’s education, though thoroughly religious until (Weary Death, 1921) that finally jarred him into a realization of he reached the age of fifteen, included a year with the French what film could do: ‘I came out of the Vieux Colombier [theatre] order of the Sacred Heart, followed by seven years at the Jesuit completely transformed. Images could and did become for me Colegio del Salvador; an excellent student, he willingly the true means of expression. I decided to devote myself to the immersed himself in scripture and other religious writings, but cinema.’ ” his greatest interest was study of insects and animals. Around the age of fourteen or fifteen, he began to have serious doubts about Making his way to the avant-garde filmmaker Jean the faith, and during two years of study at the secular Instituto Epstein’s academy of cinema (where he found himself in a class Nacional de Enseñanza read Spencer, Rousseau, Marx and above of nineteen, with eighteen White Russians), he convinced Epstein all, Darwin, whose Origin of the Species particularly affected his to let him work as an assistant on Mauprat (1926). Around the thinking. same time he also served as an assistant to Henri Etiévant and In 1917 Buñuel, eager to break away from the enclosed Marius Nalpa on La Sirène des tropiques, starring Josephine environment of Saragossa, he went off to Madrid to enter the Baker, and played a small role in Jacques Feyder’s Carmen. In university. His own inclination was to study music but his father 1927 he had a brief go at a theatrical career, first as a scriptwriter set him on the more practical course of agricultural engineering; for a Spanish Hamlet, performed in the cellar of the Select Café, when it became clear that he was not good enough in math for and then as director of a production in Amsterdam of Manuel de such a program, he switched to the natural sciences and pursued Falla’s El Retablo de Maese Pedro.