Details

Release year: 1970

Storyline

Shortly after her mother's death, an innocent and youthful woman becomes the ward of a middle-aged nobleman who wants to control her.

Top credits

Directors

Luis Buñuel

Writers

Cast

Catherine Deneuve — Tristana
Fernando Rey — Don Lope
Franco Nero — Horacio
Lola Gaos — Saturna

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Awards

0 wins & 1 nomination

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Did you know

• Luis Buñuel said that many of Tristana's idiosyncrasies, including her habit of asking people to choose between nearly identical objects, was based on the director's sister's similar habits.

• Luis Buñuel stated that this film was twenty years in the making. He first considered making the film in 1950, during his Mexican period. The project never materialized, and efforts to make the film in Buñuel's native Spain were twice quashed by censorship issues before it finally was given the green light in late 1969.

• Upon receiving an Academy Award nomination for this film, director Luis Buñuel said "nothing would disgust me more, morally, than to win an oscar." The Academy ultimately selected Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) as the winner of the Best Foreign Language Film category and spared Bunuel further moral indignation.