Claude Cerval, Alain Cuny, Paul Frankeur, François Maistre, Edith Scob, Laurent Terzieff, and Bernard Verley in The Milky Way (1969)

The Milky Way

Original title: La voie lactĂŠe
Movie1969• M• 1h 45m
ComedyDrama
⭐ 7.3 / 10(8,566)

Two drifters go on a pilgrimage from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Along the way, they hitchhike, beg for food, and face the Christian dogmas and heresies from different Ages.

Rated
M
Runtime
1h 45m
Released
1969
Country
France, Italy, West Germany

Details

Release year: 1969

Storyline

Two drifters go on a pilgrimage from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Along the way, they hitchhike, beg for food, and face the Christian dogmas and heresies from different Ages.

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Did you know

• The pope being shot by the revolutionaries is played by Luis Buñuel himself.

• The stories in The Milky Way (1969) are based on real historical episodes. Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière did extensive research for the film, primarily in the _Dictionary of Heresies_ by Abbé Pluquet.

• According to his autobiography, My Last Sigh, Luis Buñuel got the idea of making the film after reading Historia de los heterodoxos españoles by Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo.

User reviews

⭐ 8/10

Bunuel's road movie!

👍 22 · 11/11/2007
⭐ 6/10

Clever theological dialectic from the hands of a declared atheist

👍 14 · 5/23/2008
⭐ 8/10

Simply By Taking the Catholic View of History and Heresies, Bunuel Has Created a Work of Surrealism.

👍 9 · 3/17/2009

Technical specs

Sound mix
Mono
Aspect ratio
1.66 : 1
Color
Color
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