La Fievre Monte a El Pao
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Director Luis Bunuel Music director Paul Misraki | 7/10 IMDb Genre Drama Duration Language French | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Luis Alcoriza , Luis Bunuel Release date 5 December 1959 (France) Screenplay Luis Bunuel, Luis Alcoriza Cast Gérard Philipe (Ramón Vázquez), Jean Servais (Alejandro Gual), Miguel Ángel Ferriz (le Gouverneur Mariano Vargas), Raúl Dantés (Lieutenant García), Domingo Soler (Professeur Juan Cárdenas), Víctor Junco (Indarte)Similar movies Directed by Luis Bunuel, Set in South America, Other similar movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A man (Gerard Philipe) becomes ruler of a Latin American island after an assassination.
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La fievre monte a El Pao ("Fever Mounts at El Pao", also known in English as Republic of Sin) is a 1959 film by director Luis Bunuel. Gerard Philipe died during the filming. This was his last film and scenes had to be shot using a double, or rewritten to complete the picture.
Aroused citizens assassinate an unpopular Caribbean despot, then two men vie for his gorgeous widow Ines. Ojeda is a steamy, isolated island, the penal colony for an oppressive dictatorship. A reactionary seizes the murdered governor's post, and rushes to eliminate his romantic rival, an idealistic underling. The bureaucrat Vazquez hopes to marshal the angry residents of the capitol, El Pao, plus the many political prisoners, to oust Governor Gual.
Plot
On the remote Caribbean island Ojeda an agitated population kills their despotic ruler Mariano Vargas. His secretary Ramon Vazquez takes over and tries to reinstate public order. Meanwhile Alejandro Gual, leader of a special military unit, tries to take the place of Ramon Vazquez. Knowing that Ramon Vazquez had an affair with the dictators wife Ines, he tries to turn the widow against her lover.
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