The River and Death (Spanish: El río y la muerte) is a 1954 Mexican film.

[1] The film is an adaptation of Miguel Álvarez Acosta's 1952[2] novel Muro blanco en roca negra (White Wall on a Black Rock).

[3][4] The film, an adaptation of a novel about blood revenge that has lasted for several generations, is so country-specific that the audience at the Venice Film Festival thought it was a comedy.

[citation needed] Buñuel takes great pains in his autobiography to show that the despicable events portrayed in the film were even surpassed by reality.

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