Death in the Garden

La mort en ce jardin
Death in the Garden
La mort en ce jardin Spanish poster
Directed byLuis Buñuel
Written byLuis Alcoriza
Luis Buñuel
Gabriel Arout
Produced byÓscar Dancigers [es]
David Mage
Starring
Music byPaul Misraki
Production
companies
Producciones Tepeyac
Films Dismage
Distributed byCinédis (France)
Películas Nacionales (Mexico)
Release dates
  • 21 September 1956 (1956-09-21) (France)
  • 9 June 1960 (1960-06-09) (Mexico)
Running time
97 minutes
CountriesFrance
Mexico
LanguagesFrench
Spanish
Budget$600,000[1]

La mort en ce jardin ("Death in the Garden") a.k.a. Diamond Hunters is a 1956 adventure film by director Luis Buñuel, based on a novel by José-André Lacour, that stars Simone Signoret, Charles Vanel and Michel Piccoli, with additional dialogue by Raymond Queneau. Set in an unidentified South American country, it recounts the bloody suppression by the corrupt governing regime of an insurrection by illegal diamond miners, after which five disparate fugitives take to the jungle in search of safety.

  1. ^ "Mage Estimates Dubbing Costs". Variety. 25 April 1956. p. 20.