Death in the Garden

Death in the Garden

104 mins | Drama, Adventure | Sept. 21, 1956

Amid a revolution in a South American mining outpost, a band of fugitives - a roguish adventurer, a local hooker, a priest, an aging diamond miner and his deaf-mute daughter - are forced to flee for their lives into the jungle. Starving, exhausted and stripped of their old identities, they wander desperately lured by one deceptive promise of salvation after another.

Death in the Garden

104 mins | Drama, Adventure | Sept. 21, 1956

Death in the Garden
Amid a revolution in a South American mining outpost, a band of fugitives - a roguish adventurer, a local hooker, a priest, an aging diamond miner and his deaf-mute daughter - are forced to flee for their lives into the jungle. Starving, exhausted and stripped of their old identities, they wander desperately lured by one deceptive promise of salvation after another.
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers Producciones Tepeyac, Dismage
Original title La Mort en ce jardin
Directors Javier Carreño, Ignacio Villareal, Colette Crochot, Luis Buñuel
Writers José-André Lacour, Gabriel Arout, Raymond Queneau, Luis Alcoriza, Luis Buñuel

Cast

Simone Signoret

as Djin

Charles Vanel

as Castin

Georges Marchal

as Shark

Michel Piccoli

as Father Lizardi

Tito Junco

as Chenko

Raúl Ramírez

as Álvaro

Jorge Martínez de Hoyos

as Captain Ferrero

Alberto Pedret 'Atabar'

as Second Lieutenant Jiménez

Michèle Girardon

as María Castin

José Chávez

as (uncredited)

Federico Curiel

as (uncredited)

Alicia del Lago

as (uncredited)

Agustín Fernández

as (uncredited)

Guillermo Hernández

as (uncredited)

Chel López

as (uncredited)

Manuel Dondé

as Telegraph operator (uncredited)

Enedina Díaz de León

as Elderly woman in lynch mob (uncredited)

Leonor Gómez

as Woman in lynch mob (uncredited)

José Muñoz

as First lieutenant (uncredited)

Francisco Reiguera

as Shopkeeper (uncredited)