The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955)
A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan...
- Released
- 1955-05-19
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, Crime
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Luis Buñuel
- TMDB rating
- 7.3/10 from 185 votes
Cast
- Ernesto Alonso as Archibaldo de la Cruz
- Miroslava as Lavinia
- Rita Macedo as Patricia Terrazas
- Andrea Palma as Mrs. Cervantes
- Rodolfo Landa as Alejandro Rivas
- Ariadna Welter as Carlota Cervantes
- José María Linares Rivas as Willy Corduran
- Leonor Llausás as The Governess
- Eva Calvo as Señora de la Cruz, Archibaldo's mother
- Enrique Díaz 'Indiano' as Señor de la Cruz, Archibaldo's father
- Carlos Riquelme as The Commissioner
- Carlos Martínez Baena as Priest
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