A group of high-society friends are invited to a mansion for dinner and inexplicably find themselves unable to leave in Luis Buñuel's daring masterpiece The Exterminating Angel (El angel exterminador). Made just one year after his international sensation Viridiana, this film, full of eerie, comic absurdity, furthers Buñuel's wicked takedown of the rituals and dependencies of the frivolous upper classes.

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The Exterminating Angel (1962)

El ángel exterminador
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Fantasy/Mystery/Drama · 1h 33m · 2/10/2009

    
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A group of high-society friends are invited to a mansion for dinner and inexplicably find themselves unable to leave in Luis Buñuel's daring masterpiece The Exterminating Angel (El angel exterminador). Made just one year after his international sensation Viridiana, this film, full of eerie, comic absurdity, furthers Buñuel's wicked takedown of the rituals and dependencies of the frivolous upper classes.

Release Country

United States

Barcode

715515035026

Release Date

2/10/2009

Media Type

Movie

Audio

  Spanish     

Digital Copy

Not Included

Studio

The Criterion Collection/Janus Films/Video Mercury Films S. A./Producciones Gustavo Alatriste

Subtitles

English

Video Format

NTSC

Aspect Ratio

1.33:1

Cover Type

Keep Case (Std.)

Discs

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Cast
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Silvia Pinal

Leticia 'La Valkiria'
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Enrique Rambal

Edmundo Nobile
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Claudio Brook

Julio, Mayordomo; Steward
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José Baviera

Leandro Gomez
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Augusto Benedico

Carlos Conde; Doctor
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Antonio Bravo

Sergio Russell
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Jacqueline Andere

Alicia de Roc
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César del Campo

Alvaro, Coronel; Colonel
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Rosa Elena Durgel

Silvia
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Lucy Gallardo

Lucía de Nobile
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Enrique García Álvarez

Alberto Roc
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Ofelia Guilmáin

Juana Avila
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Nadia Haro Oliva

Ana Maynar
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Tito Junco

Raúl
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Xavier Loya

Francisco Avila
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Xavier Massé

Eduardo
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Ofelia Montesco

Beatriz
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Luis Beristáin

Cristián Ugalde
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Patricia Morán

Rita Ugalde
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Patricia de Morelos

Blanca
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Bertha Moss

Leonora
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Janet Alcoriza

(uncredited)
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Guillermo Álvarez Bianchi

(uncredited)
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Florencio Castelló

(uncredited)
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Arturo Cobo

(uncredited)
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David Hayyad Cohen

(uncredited)
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Pancho Córdova

(uncredited)
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Enrique del Castillo

(uncredited)
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Eric del Castillo

(uncredited)
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Jesús Gómez

Policia; Policeman (uncredited)
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Elodia Hernández

(uncredited)
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Luis Lomeli

(uncredited)
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Chel López

(uncredited)
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Rita Macedo

Lucía de Nobile (uncredited)
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Ángel Merino

Lucas (uncredited)
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Roberto Meyer

Loco; Fool (uncredited)
Crew
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Luis Buñuel

Director
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Luis Alcoriza

Writer
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Luis Buñuel

Writer
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Gabriel Figueroa

Cinematograpy
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