Viridiana (1961) DVD9 Criterion Collection #332

Year of manufacture: 1961 Country: Spain, Mexico Genre: Drama Duration: 01:31:07 Translation 1: Professional (multi-voice, voice-over) - State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company Culture Translation 2: Professional (one-voice) Russian subtitles: yes Director: Luis Bunuel Starring: Silvia Pinal, Fernando Rey, Francisco Rabal, Margarita Lozano, Teresa Rabal and others.

Description:

Viridiana's uncle, who provided his niece with education, really wants to see her in his castle before she becomes a nun. In fact, the uncle has been in love with his niece for a long time. This passion shocks Viridiana so much that she decides not to return to the monastery. (kinopoisk.ru) Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, 1961. This work seems especially simple and realistic in the work of the great Spaniard Luis Buñuel, who did not lose his taste for surrealism throughout his life. So a viewer who is familiar with the later caustic, masterfully constructed strange parables of this director may perceive superficially and simplistically the most Spanish film (regardless of the fact that it was actually filmed in Spain) of an exile deprived of his homeland. The scandal and ban of the film in the Francoist country (it was released only in 1977 - and the attendance was considerable, amounting to a million viewers!) were caused not only by the fact that the author dared to encroach on holy symbols. He played ironically and just surrealistically with a folding knife in the shape of a crucifix, a sports suitcase with thorns and chains, drunken beggars and notorious scum frozen in the pose of the apostles from Leonardo da Vinci’s “Last Supper”, and also clearly hinted at twenty years of “desolation” in the dictatorial Spain after the Civil War. Buñuel questioned and debunked many of the myths and dogmas that continued to dominate the minds of the Spaniards and define their mentality for centuries.

Quality: DVD9 Format: DVD Video Video codec: MPEG2 Audio codec: AC3 Video: NTSC 16:9 (720x480) VBR Auto Letterboxed Audio 1: Espanol (Dolby AC3, 1 ch), 192kbps Audio 2: Russian (Dolby AC3, 1 ch), 192kbps - MVO Audio 3: Russian (Dolby AC3, 1 ch), 96kbps - VO Subtitles: Russian, English