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Un Chien Andalou | |
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Directed by | Luis Buñuel |
Written by | Luis Buñuel Salvador Dalí |
Produced by | Luis Buñuel |
Starring | Pierre Batcheff Simone Mareuil Luis Buñuel Salvador Dalí Jaume Miravitlles Fano Messan (uncredited) |
Cinematography | Albert Duverger Jimmy Berliet (uncredited) |
Edited by | Luis Buñuel |
Music by | Richard Wagner |
Distributed by | Les Grands Films Classiques (France) |
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Running time | 21 minutes |
Country | France |
Languages | Silent film (French intertitles) |
Budget | < 100,000 francs |
Un Chien Andalou (French pronunciation: [œ̃ ʃjɛ̃ ɑ̃dalu], An Andalusian Dog) is a 1929 French silent short film directed, produced and edited by Luis Buñuel, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Salvador Dalí. Buñuel's first film, it was initially released in a limited capacity at Studio des Ursulines in Paris, but became popular and ran for eight months.[1]
Un Chien Andalou has no plot in the conventional sense of the word. With disjointed chronology, jumping from the initial "once upon a time" to "eight years later" without events or characters changing, it uses dream logic in narrative flow that can be described in terms of the then-popular Freudian free association, presenting a series of tenuously related scenes. Un Chien Andalou is a seminal work of surrealist cinema.
The film is set to enter the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2025.