Luis Buñuel's pseudo-documentary was shot in the area around the town of La Alberca in Spain's impoverished Las Hurdes region. Part ethnography, part anthropological travelogue, and part Surrealist fiction, this landmark hybrid pushes the boundaries of the nascent documentary form and demonstrates the director's penchant for paradox. Originally silent, Buñuel later added a French narration and extracts from the final symphony of Johannes Brahms (No. 4, Op. 98, 1884). English subtitles available.