Un Chien Andalou
| 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.
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.