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Overview

User Rating:
8.0/10   10,957 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Salvador Dalí (scenario) and
Luis Buñuel (scenario)
Contact:
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Release Date:
6 June 1929 (France) more
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Plot:
In a dream-like sequence, a woman's eye is slit open--juxtaposed with a similarly shaped cloud obsucuring... more | add synopsis
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(3 articles)
Outrageous! Un Chien Andalou
 (From Bad Lit . 31 December 2009, 5:00 AM, PST)

The Exterminating Angel/Simon of the Desert
 (From PasteMagazine. 27 February 2009, 7:18 AM, PST)

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Holy Eyeball Slicing, Batman! more (100 total)

Cast

  (in credits order) (verified as complete)
Simone Mareuil ... Young girl (as Simonne Mareuil)
Pierre Batcheff ... Man (as Pierre Batchef)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Luis Buñuel ... Man in Prolog (uncredited)

Salvador Dalí ... Seminarist (uncredited)
Robert Hommet ... Young Man (uncredited)
Marval ... Seminarist (uncredited)
Fano Messan ... Hermaphrodite (uncredited)
Jaume Miravitlles ... Fat Seminarist (uncredited)
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Directed by
Luis Buñuel  (as Louis Bunuel)
 
Writing credits
Salvador Dalí (scenario) (as Salvador Dali) and
Luis Buñuel (scenario) (as Louis Bunuel)

Produced by
Luis Buñuel .... producer
 
Cinematography by
Albert Duverger  (as Duverger)
Jimmy Berliet (uncredited)
 
Film Editing by
Luis Buñuel 
 
Art Direction by
Pierre Schild (uncredited)
 
Music Department
Luis Buñuel .... music selection (1960 sonorized version)
 
Crew believed to be complete


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Additional Details

Also Known As:
An Andalusian Dog (USA)
Un perro andaluz (Argentina) (Chile) (Spain) [es]
Andalusialainen koira (Finland) [fi]
Den andalusiska Hunden (Sweden) [sv]
Den andalusiske hund (Denmark) [da]
Ein andalusischer Hund (Germany) [de]
Pies andaluzyjski (Poland) [pl]
Um Cão Andaluz (Portugal) [pt]
Un chien andalou (Italy) [it]
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Runtime:
16 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
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Certification:
Finland:(Banned) (1962) (uncut) | Finland:(Banned) (1956 ) (uncut) | Finland:K-16 (1962) (cut) | Finland:K-16 (1977) (uncut) | Singapore:NC-16 | Argentina:16 | UK:15 (video rating) (1994) | UK:X (original rating) | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Australia:M

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Trivia:
The movie contains several references to Federico García Lorca (who was in love with Salvador Dalí) and other writers of that time. The rotting donkeys are a reference to the novel "Platero y yo" by Juan Ramón Jiménez, which Luis Buñuel and Dalí hated. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Le piranha andalou (1999) more
Soundtrack:
Tristan und Isolde: Liebestod more

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34 out of 38 people found the following review useful.
Holy Eyeball Slicing, Batman!, 22 January 1999

"Sitting comfortably in a dark room, dazzled by the light and the movement which exert a quasi-hypnotic power... fascinated by the interest of human faces and the rapid changes of place, [a] cultivated individual placidly accepts the most appalling themes...and all this naturally sanctioned by habitual morality, government, and international censorship, religion, dominated by good taste and enlivened by white humor and other prosaic imperatives of reality." - Luis Bunuel

Un Chien Andalou exists to shock the viewer of this stupor that Bunuel elucidates above. Freudian dream imagery, amorphous space/time, and absurdist humor combine in this drawn out mating ritual between a confused cyclist and the female he pursues. May be the most inventive fifteen minutes of film anywhere.

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