Don Jaime

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Don Jaime is a wealthy, repressed Spanish widower whose obsessive piety and conflicted desire drive much of the psychological and moral tension in Luis Buñuel’s film "Viridiana."

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character
film character
appearsIn Viridiana NERFINISHED
associatedWorkCountryOfOrigin Spain NERFINISHED
associatedWorkDirector Luis Buñuel NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship Spain
creator Luis Buñuel NERFINISHED
filmReleaseYearOfWork 1961
gender male
languageOfWorkOrName Spanish
maritalStatus widower
medium film
moralCharacteristic morally conflicted
nameInLanguage Spanish
narrativeFunction source of moral tension
source of psychological tension
narrativeImportance central character in Viridiana
nationality Spanish
portrayedBy Fernando Rey NERFINISHED
psychologicalTrait conflicted desire
sexually repressed
relationshipToOtherCharacter uncle of Viridiana
religiousCharacteristic obsessively pious
romanticOrSexualFixationOn Viridiana NERFINISHED
settingOfResidence rural estate in Spain
socialStatus wealthy landowner
thematicRole embodiment of religious hypocrisy
embodiment of repressed desire

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Viridiana hasCharacter Don Jaime