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Simon of the Desert

Simon of the Desert

Fantasy Drama Comedy

1965, Movie, 45min

SIMON OF THE DESERT is Luis Buñuel’s wicked and wild take on the life of devoted ascetic Saint Simeon Stylites, who waited atop a pillar surrounded by a barren landscape for six years, six months, and six days, in order to prove his devotion to God. Yet the devil, in the figure of the beautiful Silvia Pinal, huddles below, trying to tempt him down. A skeptic’s vision of human conviction, Buñuel’s short and sweet satire is one of the master filmmaker’s most renowned works of surrealism.

Country: Mexico

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Francisco Reiguera

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Simon of the Desert include Pippi Goes on Board, Pippi in the South Seas, The Exterminating Angel, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, The Devil's Eye, Juliet of the Spirits.

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Simon of the Desert was released in theaters on February 10, 1969.