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Bunuel and King Solomon's Table(2001)
Status: Released
Date: 2001-11-09
51%
16 Votes
Time: 1h 40m
Bunuel, Lorca and Dalí: three geniuses in an adventure with no return
Overview:
The old Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel (1900-83) imagines a movie plot, set in Toledo in the future 2002, about the fantastic adventure of three actors, who play him and his friends, the painter Salvador Dalí (1904-89) and the poet Federico García Lorca (1898-1936), and their search for King Solomon's table, a mythical artifact capable of revealing the past, present and future.
Languages: Arabic, Hebrew, French, Spanish.
Countries:
Germany,
Italy,
Mexico,
Spain
ProductionCompanies: 
Rioja Films
Centre Promotor de la Imatge
Altavista Films
Castelao Productions
Lanterna Editrice
Movie: Bunuel and King Solomon's Table
Top 10 Billed Cast
El Gran Wyoming
Old Buñuel
Pere Arquillué
Young Buñuel
Ernesto Alterio
Dalí
Adrià Collado
Lorca
Valeria Marini
Ana María de Zayas
Amira Casar
Fátima
Jean-Claude Carrière
David Goldman
Juan Luis Galiardo
Film Critic
Armando De Razza
Abilio Avendaño
Eusebio Lázaro
Rabbi
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