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Luis Buñuel

Un chien andalou

Director Luis Buñuel Cast Simone Mareuil, Pierre Batcheff, Jaime Miravilles, Salvador Dalí, Luis Buñuel
25' - 1928 - Fantasy
An open eye is slashed in half with a razor, ants emerge from the palm of a hand, breasts dissolve into buttocks, priests are pulled along the ground, dead donkeys lie on two pianos... Made under the influence of André Breton's Surrealist Manifesto, this series of unconnected incidents designed to have the logic of a dream, was the cinematic equivalent of the surrealist's automatic writing. and so Buñuel's career as a director began with one of the most startling and most famous images in all cinema - the cutting of the eye. The film is still, as Jean Vigo stated in 1930 "a work of major importance in every respect". It was financed by Buñuel's mother, as well as the Vicomte de Noailles and 'money won by a friend on the lottery'.

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Credits

Directors

Luis Buñuel

Cast

Simone Mareuil, Pierre Batcheff, Jaime Miravilles, Salvador Dalí, Luis Buñuel

Scenario

Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí

Director of Photography

Albert Duverger

Producers

Luis Buñuel

More info

Countries of production

France

Screenplay based on

André Breton's Surrealist Manifesto

Year

1928