Simón del desierto
Director: Luis Buñuel
Genre: Surrealism, Satire, History, World cinema, Art film, Comedy, Drama
Year: 1965
Country: Mexico
Language: Spanish Language
Starring: Claudio Brook, Silvia Pinal, Enrique Álvarez Félix, Hortensia Santovaña, Francisco Reiguera, Luis Aceves Castañeda, Enrique García Álvarez, Antonio Bravo, Enrique del Castillo, Eduardo MacGregor
Simon of the Desert (Spanish: Simón del desierto) is a 1965 film directed by Luis Buñuel. It is loosely based on the story of the ascetic 5th-century Syrian saint Simeon Stylites, who lived for 39 years on top of a column.
Simon of the Desert is the third (after Viridiana and The Exterminating Angel) of three movies that were directed by Buñuel, starring Silvia Pinal and Claudio Brook and produced by her husband Gustavo Alatriste.
Simón, the son of Simeon Stylites, has lived for 6 years, 6 weeks and 6 days atop an eight-meter pillar in the middle of the desert, praying for spiritual purification. A congregation of priests and peasants salute him and offer him a brand new pillar to stand on and carry on his mission. He comes down the pillar and is offered priesthood, but refuses because he considers himself unworthy, and forsakes his aging mother for the love of God before climbing up his new pillar. He heals an amputee missing both hands, whose first use of them is to slap his child. But the congregation quickly departs unimpressed, leaving Simón alone.
Time goes by and Simón meets a number of regular characters - a handsome priest whom he condemns on grounds of vanity, a dwarf
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