Adventurer Shark comes to a small village near a diamond-miners camp, and local police arrest him, accusing him of having committed a bank robbery in a neighboring town. The police also confiscate the diamond mine for the state, which incites the miners to revolt, but theyre defeated. Shark, Father Lizzardi, Castin, his daughter, and Djin, a whore Castin loves, flee into the jungle and fight for their lives.
1956
HD
105min
Mexico
French
Luis Buñuel
Michel Piccoli
Tito Junco
Georges Marchal
Charles Vanel
Simone Signoret
Raúl Ramírez
Michèle Girardon
Luis Aceves Castañeda
Jorge Martínez de Hoyos
based on novel or book
father daughter relationship
amazon rainforest
political repression
diamond mine
popular uprising
