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Filmmaker · France, Spain, Mexico

Luis Buñuel

Died in 1983

Luis Buñuel was born on 22 February 1900 in Calanda, in Aragon, and studied with the Jesuits of Zaragoza. At the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid, he became friends with Salvador Dalí and Federico García Lorca. Settled in Paris in 1925, he joined the Surrealists. During the civil war, he served the Republican government, then worked at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and in 1946 settled in Mexico, where he made a large part of his work. He died in Mexico City on 29 July 1983.

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