Biographies: Luis Buñuel - Writer

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Spanish director, born on 22 February, 1900. His father was a merchant, he succeeded in amassing a good fortune. At the age of forty, he decided to return to his native town, Calanda, and there he got married, this marriage resulted in seven children. In 1928, with financial support from his mother, Buñuel was able to make the movie Un Chien Andalouin cooperation with Salvador Dali. The success of the movie prompted a major financier to ask Buñuel to present another film, so Buñuel traveled to meet Dali, where they completed the script for the movie The Golden Age, which was shown in Paris in 1930. It ranked third among the French speaking films, and over the course of six days, the film was widely accepted. He was able to shoot the influential documentary film Land Without Bread (1932), which provoked the frenzy of the Spanish right and ended up being banned. In Madrid, Buñuel produced four commercial films, but he did not direct any of them and his work stopped with the beginning of the Civil War in production, where he sided with the Republicans and served the Spanish Republic through its embassy in Paris. He then traveled to Hollywood, and after the fall of the Republic, he left it to New York to work in the Documentary Film Department directed to Latin America, where he re-edited the Nazi film Victory of the Will and as a result of the circumstances that preceded McCarthyism, he resigned from his work in 1946. Like many Spanish exiles, Buñuel chose Mexico as his second home. He died on July 29, 1983 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico of liver and pancreatic cancer.

• 9 March 2022
• farah ashraf