The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2004)

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The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel, first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. It tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope-fiber suspension bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on the bridge.[ A friar who has witnessed the tragic accident then goes about inquiring into the lives of the victims, seeking some sort of cosmic answer to the question of why each had to die. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928.

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Director

Mary McGuckian

Stars

Gabriel Byrne
Brother Juniper

F. Murray Abraham
Viceroy of Peru

Kathy Bates
The Marquesa

Robert De Niro
Archbishop of Peru

Harvey Keitel
Uncle Pio

Pilar López de Ayala
Camila Villegas (La Perichola)

Mark Polish
Manuel

Michael Polish
Esteban

Adriana Domínguez
Pepita

Geraldine Chaplin
The Abbess

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Keywords

woman director, based on novel, period drama, 18th century, peru, bridge, collapse

Production

N/A

Actor

Gabriel Byrne, F. Murray Abraham, Kathy Bates, Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, Pilar López de Ayala, Mark Polish, Michael Polish, Adriana Domínguez, Geraldine Chaplin, Dominique Pinon, John Lynch, Émilie Dequenne, Samuel Le Bihan, Jim Sheridan

Creators

Javier Aguirresarobe (Director of Photography), Lalo Schifrin (Original Music Composer), Thornton Wilder (Novel), Mary McGuckian (Director)

Release dates

22.12.2004 (ES)
25.05.2005 (FR)
01.01.2004 (DE)
10.06.2005 (US)
22.07.2005 (GR)