El Dorado (1988 film)
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| El Dorado | |
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| Directed by | Carlos Saura |
| Written by | Carlos Saura |
| Produced by | Andrés Vicente Gómez |
| Starring | Omero Antonutti Lambert Wilson Inés Sastre Eusebio Poncela |
| Cinematography | Teodoro Escamilla |
| Edited by | Pedro del Rey |
| Music by | Alejandro Massó |
Release date |
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Running time | 149 minutes |
| Country | Spain |
| Language | Spanish |
El Dorado is a 1988 Spanish film written and directed by Carlos Saura. It was entered into the 1988 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
Synopsis
[edit]The film is about an expedition down the Amazon and Orinoco rivers in 1560 by Spanish soldiers searching for the fabled city of gold, El Dorado. Taking some followers and family along on the journey, they descend into madness and battle the environment and each other.
Cast
[edit]- Omero Antonutti as Lope de Aguirre
- Lambert Wilson as Pedro de Ursúa
- Eusebio Poncela as Guzmán
- Gabriela Roel as Inés
- Inés Sastre as Elvira
- José Sancho as La Bandera
- Patxi Bisquert as Pedrarías
- Francisco Algora as LLamoso
- Féodor Atkine as Montoya
- Abel Vitón as Henao
- Francisco Merino as Alonso Esteban
- Mariano González as Zalduendo
- Gladys Catania as Juana
- Alfredo Catania as Vargas
- Gustavo Rojas as Carrión
References
[edit]- ^ "Festival de Cannes: El Dorado". festival-cannes.com. Archived from the original on 3 October 2012. Retrieved 29 July 2012.
External links
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Categories:
- 1988 films
- 1988 drama films
- 1980s Spanish-language films
- Films about conquistadors
- Drama films based on actual events
- Films directed by Carlos Saura
- Films set in the Spanish Empire
- Films set in South America
- Films set in the 1560s
- Indigenous cinema in Latin America
- Spanish drama films
- 1980s Spanish films
- Cultural depictions of Spanish people
- 1980s Spanish film stubs