Land Without Bread (1933)
30m Documentary
A surrealistic documentary portrait of the region of Las Hurdes, a remote region of Spain where civilisation has barely developed, showing how the local peasants try to survive without even the most basic utilities and skills. In this documentary short by director Luis Buñuel he travels to Las Hurdes, a remote region…
About Land Without Bread
A surrealistic documentary portrait of the region of Las Hurdes, a remote region of Spain where civilisation has barely developed, showing how the local peasants try to survive without even the most basic utilities and skills. In this documentary short by director Luis Buñuel he travels to Las Hurdes, a remote region of Spain which was connected to the outside world only in 1922 with the completion of a road. The residents of the area - spread across several villages - live in poverty and in isolation from the outside world. They survive mostly on a diet of potatoes and beans with meat available only a few days a week. In fact, they eat goat meat only when one of the animals dies. Inbreeding results in a disproportionately large number of people with mental disabilities. The title refers to the fact that the residents did not know how to make bread. —garykmcd Pivoting around Luis Buñuel's belief that a film must always defend and indirectly communicate the idea that we live in a brutal, hypocritical, and unjust world, "Land Without Bread" focuses on what was considered to be one of the poorest and most geographically remote areas of Spain: the autonomous community of Las Hurdes…
