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Arruza

Name: Arruza
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1972-08-23
Duration: 73 min
Rating: 6.8

★ 6,8 /10 (4 Votes)

1972 EN 73 min

Overview

Eight years in the making, Boetticher’s portrait of his longtime friend, the famous bullfighter Carlos Arruza, was a labor of love that the renowned director of westerns pursued despite contending with illnesses, bankruptcy, jail time, and lucrative offers from Hollywood. The result is an astonishing work of poetry, immediacy, and violence that fearlessly wrestles with the filmmaker’s own ambivalence about the titular matador’s triumphs prior to his death by automobile accident at the age of 46.

Release date

23/08/1972

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