Viridiana

Director: Luis Buñuel

Writer: Luis Buñuel, Julio Alejandro de Castro

Production: Co-production Spain-México, 1961

Duration: 90 minutes

Genre:
Drama

Language:
Spanish with English subtitles

Cast:
Silvia Pinal, Francisco Rabal, Fernando Rey, José Calvo, Margarita Lozano, José Manuel Martín, Victoria Zinny, Luis Heredia, Joaquín Roa, Lola Gaos, María Isbert, Teresa Rabal

Awards:
1961: Winner of the Cannes Film Festival Palme D'Or (Goleen Palm).

Synopsis:
Viridiana is a virtuous young woman living in a convent in Spain and about to take her vows as a nun, when she is urged by her superior to visit her closest living relative, the widowed Don Jaime (Fernando Rey), at his estate. The lonely Don Jaime asks Viridiana to oblige him by trying on his deceased wife's wedding gown, and the young niece does so. Later, the aroused Don Jaime drugs Viridiana, planning to ravish her while she is unconscious. Though he falters, he later commits suicide out of guilt and shame and Viridiana inherits the estate along with Don Jaime's prodigal and pragmatic son, Jorge.

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