Directed by:
Luis BuñuelCinematography:
Gabriel FigueroaComposer:
Raúl LavistaCast:
Claudio Brook, Silvia Pinal, Enrique Álvarez Félix, Glauber Rocha, Antonio Bravo, Hortensia Santoveña, Francisco Reiguera, Luis Aceves Castañeda (more)Plots(1)
Simon of the Desert is Luis Buñuel's wicked and wild take on the life of devoted ascetic Saint Simeon Stylites, who waited atop a pillar surrounded by a barren landscape for six years, six months, and six days, in order to prove his devotion to God. Yet the devil, in the figure of the beautiful Silvia Pinal, huddles below, trying to tempt him down. A skeptic’s vision of human conviction, Buñuel's short and sweet satire is one of the master filmmaker's most renowned works of surrealism. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Claudio Brook
Mexico
Best movies:
Don't Look Now: We're Being Shot At (1966)
The Exterminating Angel (1962)
Viridiana (1961)
Silvia Pinal
Mexico
Best movies:
The Exterminating Angel (1962)
Viridiana (1961)
Guns for San Sebastian (1968)
Enrique Álvarez Félix
Mexico
Glauber Rocha
Brazil
Best movies:
East Wind (1970)
Antonio Bravo
Spain
Best movies:
The Exterminating Angel (1962)
Nazarin (1959)
Rehearsal for a Crime (1955)
Hortensia Santoveña
Best movies:
Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)
Wuthering Heights (1954)
Francisco Reiguera
Spain
Best movies:
Don Quijote de Orson Welles (1992)
Viva Maria! (1965)
Major Dundee (1965)
Luis Aceves Castañeda
Mexico
Best movies:
Nazarin (1959)
Fever Mounts at El Pao (1959)
Ascent to Heaven (1952)
Enrique García Álvarez
Spain
Best movies:
The Exterminating Angel (1962)
Even the Wind Is Afraid (1968)
Eduardo MacGregor
Best movies:
El internado (2007) (series) - actor, a.f.
Jeremy (2015)
The Book of Stone (1969)
Enrique del Castillo
Mexico
Best movies:
The Exterminating Angel (1962)
The Devil and the Flesh (1951)