(Arruza)

Content: Eight years in the making, Boetticher’s portrait of his longtime friend, the famous bullfighter Carlos Arruza, was a labor of love that the renowned director of westerns pursued despite contending with illnesses, bankruptcy, jail time, and lucrative offers from Hollywood. The result is an astonishing work of poetry, immediacy, and violence that fearlessly wrestles with the filmmaker’s own ambivalence about the titular matador’s triumphs prior to his death by automobile accident at the age of 46.

Countries:

United States of America

Genres:

Documentary

Runtime:

73 minutes

Year:

1972

Directors:

Budd Boetticher

Actors:

Himself

Narrator

Crews:

Writer

Director of Photography

Director

Editor

Editor