Overview
Newlywed Oliverio receives disturbing news that his mother is on her deathbed. He travels to a remote part of Mexico to fetch a lawyer who can sort out her will. Leaving his wife behind, he embarks on a bus ride that’s interrupted by an increasingly absurd series of episodes, including an impromptu birthday celebration; a one-legged man writhing in the mud; come-ons from an insatiable small-town belle, Raquel; and Oliverio’s frequent, Freudian nightmares.
Director and cast
- Luis Buñuel Director
- Esteban Márquez as Oliverio Grajales
- Lilia Prado as Raquel
- Luis Aceves Castañeda as Silvestre
- Manuel Dondé as Eladio Gonzales
- Roberto Cobo as Juan
- Beatriz Ramos as Elisa
- Manuel Noriega as Licenciado Figueroa
- Roberto Meyer as Don Nemesio Álvarez y Villalbazo
- Pedro Elviro as El cojo
- Leonor Gómez as Doña Linda
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