Un Chien Andalou (1929) Un chien andalou (original title)

Director:

Luis Buñuel

Writers:

Salvador Dalí (scenario) and
Luis Buñuel (scenario)

Release Date:

6 June 1929 (France)

Genre:

Short | Fantasy

Plot:

In a dream-like sequence, a woman's eye is slit open--juxtaposed with a similarly shaped cloud obsucuring...

Plot Keywords:

Donkey | Ant | Moon | Piano | Severed Hand

Cast

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)

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)

Distributors

• Les Grands Films Classiques (GFC) (1960) (France) (theatrical) (sound version)
• Microcinema International (2007) (USA) (DVD)
• Éditions Montparnasse (2005) (France) (DVD) (special edition)
• Centraal Bureau voor Ligafilms (1929) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• New Star (2012) (Greece) (theatrical) (re-release)
• Art House Video (Greece)
• Connossieur Video (1992) (USA) (VHS)
• Contemporary Films (1980) (UK) (all media)
• Homescreen (2011) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Kino Video (2001) (USA) (VHS)
• Large Door Video (Australia) (VHS)
• Moskwood Media (19??) (Netherlands) (VHS)
• Raro Video (2009) (Italy) (DVD) (box set)
• Stomp Visual (2005) (Australia) (DVD)
• Umbrella Entertainment (2007) (Australia) (DVD)
• Video Yesteryear (1987) (USA) (VHS)
• www.Moviebear.tv (2005) (UK) (TV) (internet)

Other Companies

• Guilde Inernationale du Disque  music rights (sound version: 1960) (as Guilde Inernational du Disque)

Also Known As:

"Un chien andalou" - France (original title)

Runtime:

16 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Silent

Certification:

Finland:(Banned) (1956 ) (uncut) | Finland:(Banned) (1962) (uncut) | Finland:K-16 (1977) (uncut) | Finland:K-16 (1962) (cut) | Singapore:NC-16 | Netherlands:Unrated | Argentina:16 | UK:15 (video rating) (1994) | UK:X (original rating) | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Australia:M

Filming Locations:

Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, France

Trivia:

Director Trademark: [Luis Buñuel] [insects]Ants emerge from a wound in a hand.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Intervention (2007/I)

Soundtrack:

Tristan und Isolde: Liebestod

Holy Eyeball Slicing, Batman!

"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.