“A surrealist masterpiece.”
The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.
- Director
- Luis Buñuel
Starring
Gaston Modot
The Man
Lya Lys
The Woman
- C
Caridad de Laberdesque
Marquise' Chambermaid / Girl at Blangis' Castle
- M
Max Ernst
Bandit Leader in the Hut
Josep Llorens Artigas
Governor
Lionel Salem
Duke of Blangis
- G
Germaine Noizet
Marquise of X
- D
Duchange
Orchestra Conductor
- B
Bonaventura Ibáñez
Marquis of X
Jean Aurenche
Bandit (uncredited)
Jacques Brunius
Passer-by in the Street (uncredited)
Luis Buñuel
(uncredited)
