El Dorado is a 1988 Spanish film written and directed by Carlos Saura. It was entered into the 1988 Cannes Film Festival.
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Synopsis
The film is about an expedition down the Amazon and Orinoco rivers in 1560 by Spanish soldiers searching for the fabled city of gold, El Dorado. Taking some followers and family along on the journey, they descend into madness and battle the environment and each other.
Cast
Omero Antonutti as Lope de Aguirre
Lambert Wilson as Pedro de Ursúa
Eusebio Poncela as Guzmán
Gabriela Roel as Inés
Inés Sastre as Elvira
José Sancho as La Bandera
Patxi Bisquert as Pedrarías
Francisco Algora as LLamoso
Féodor Atkine as Montoya
Abel Vitón as Henao
Francisco Merino as Alonso Esteban
Mariano González as Zalduendo
Gladys Catania as Juana
Alfredo Catania as Vargas
Gustavo Rojas as Carrión
Release
A two-hour version of the film was screened in New York at the Festival of Films from Spain on October 28, 1988, with around 30 minutes cut from the version screened at Cannes.