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Fever Mounts at El Pao (1959) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1959 · 97 mins · French
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- Directed by
- Luis Buñuel
- Starring
- Jean Servais, José Chávez, Enrique Lucero, Luis Aceves Castañeda, Pilar Pellicer, Carlos León
After angry citizens assassinate an unpopular Caribbean despot, two men vie for his beautiful widow Inés. The action moves to Ojeda, a humid, isolated penal‑colony island under an oppressive regime. A reactionary seizes the governor’s post and hunts his rival, while bureaucrat Vázquez tries to rally the capital’s populace to overthrow Governor Gual.
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