SYNOPSIS: 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 ángel 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.
| Leticia “La Valkyrie” | Silvia Pinal |
| Edmundo Nobile | Enrique Rambal |
| Lucía de Nobile | Lucy Gallardo |
| Julio, the steward | Claudio Brook |
| Leandro Gomez | José Baviera |
| Carlos Conde, the doctor | Augusto Benedico |
| Sergio Russell | Antonio Bravo |
| Alicia de Roc | Jacqueline Andere |
| Alberto Roc | Enrique García Alvarez |
| Alvaro, the colonel | César del Campo |
| Silvia | Rosa Elena Durgel |
| Director | Luis Buñuel |
| Screenplay | Luis Buñuel |
| Based on a story by | Luis Alcoriza and Luis Buñuel |
| Cinematography | Gabriel Figueroa |
| Sound | José B. Carles |
| Production design | Jesús Bracho |
| Music | Raúl Lavista |
| Editing | Carlos Savage |
| Costume design | Georgette Somohano |
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By February 09, 2009
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February 23, 2009
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February 16, 2009
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