El Dorado (1988 film)

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{{Infobox film

| name = El Dorado

| image = El Dorado (1988 film).jpg

| caption = DVD cover

| director = Carlos Saura

| producer = Andrés Vicente Gómez

| writer = Carlos Saura

| narrator =

| starring = Omero Antonutti
Lambert Wilson
Inés Sastre
Eusebio Poncela

| music = Alejandro Massó

| cinematography = Teodoro Escamilla

| editing = Pedro del Rey

| studio =

| distributor =

| released = {{Film date|1988|4|20|Spain|df=yes}}

| runtime = 149 minutes

| country = Spain

| language = Spanish

| budget =

| gross =

}}

El Dorado is a 1988 Spanish film written and directed by Carlos Saura. It was entered into the 1988 Cannes Film Festival.{{cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/301/year/1988.html |title=Festival de Cannes: El Dorado |work=festival-cannes.com |accessdate=29 July 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121003083224/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/301/year/1988.html |archivedate=3 October 2012 }}

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.

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