Un chien andalou (1929)

Country of Origin: France
Copyright Year:
Running Times: 16m
Length: 430 metres
Format: 35mm
Colour Format: black and white
Ratio: 1.33:1
Sound: silent

DIRECTION

Directed by: Louis Bunuel (Luis Buñuel)

CREW

PRODUCTION
Produced by: Luis Buñuel

SCRIPT
Script: Salvador Dali, Louis Bunuel (Luis Buñuel)

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Duverger (real name: Albert Duverger)

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Luis Buñuel

MUSIC
Music by: Mauricio Kagel (soundtrack added in 1983)

SONGS AND ADDITIONAL MUSIC
Music by: Richard Wagner (from Tristan und Isolde: Liebestod) (soundtrack added in 1960)

LOCATIONS
Locations: Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, France; Paris, France
Studio: Ursuline Studios, Paris, France

CAST

Simonne Mareuil (young girl)
Pierre Batcheff (man)

UNCREDITED CAST

Luis Buñuel (man in prologue)
Salvador Dalí, Marval, Jaime Miravilles (seminarists)
Robert Hommet (young man)
Fano Messan (hermaphrodite)

AVAILABILITY

Australia
Video Distributors: Large Door Video
DVD Distributors: Stomp Visual

Greece
Video Distributors: Art House Video

USA
Video Distributors: Kino Video; Video Yesteryear
DVD Distributors: Transflux Films

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

Argentina
Rating: 16

Australia
Rating: M

Canada
Rating: 13+ (Quebec)

Finland
Rating: uncut version banned in 1956 and 1962; K-16 (1962 (with cuts)); K-16 (1977 (uncut))

Singapore
Rating: NC-16

UK
Rating: X (theatrical rating); 15 (video rating (1994))

TIMELINE

1928
March
Day Unknown: France - production begins

1929
June
6: France - theatrical release

August
Day Unknown: Argentina - theatrical release

1962
October
5: Finland - theatrical release

1977
October
14: Finland - theatrical re-release

2000
November
2: Argentina - shown at the Ciclo Todo Buñuel

2001
October
26: Sweden - shown at the Uppsala International Short Film Festival

2004
January
30: USA - theatrical re-release

December
26: USA - DVD release (Transflux Films)

2006
April
19: Hong Kong - shown at the Hong Kong International Film Festival

2007
January
1: UK - shown at the National Film Theatre, London (on double bill with L'âge d'or (1930))
9: UK - shown at the National Film Theatre, London (on double bill with L'âge d'or (1930))
21: UK - shown at the National Film Theatre, London (on double bill with L'âge d'or (1930))

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Andalusialainen koira - Finnish title
Andalusian Dog, An - US title
Andalusischer Hund, Ein - German title
Cão Andaluz, Um - Portuguese title
Perro andaluz, Un - Argentinean/Chilean/Spanish title

LINKS

FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
100 Years of Horror (1996)
Celluloid Dreams (2002)
Cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma, Les (1995)
Dali (1986)
Fejezetek a film történetéböl: Az európai film kezdetei (1989)
Persona (1966)
Sergei Eisenstein. Avtobiografiya (1996)

REFERENCES

PERIODICALS

Avant-Scène du Cinéma no.27/28 June/July 1963 pp.13-22 (France)
script

Avant-Scène du Cinéma no.545 (October 2005) p.109 (France)
illustrated dvd review

Ça no.5/6 (January 1975) pp.3-8 (France)
article

Cahiers du Cinéma no.548 July/August 2000 pp.56-57 (France)
illustrated article

Cantrills Filmnotes no.93-100 (December 1999/January 2000) p.46-51 (France)
illustrated article

Cinéaste vol.30 no.4 (Autumn 2005) pp.64-65 (USA)
illustrated dvd review

Cinema 2002 no.37 (March 1978) pp.76-80 (Spain)
article

Cinemages vol.1 no.1 (1955) p.26 (USA)
review

Classic Images no.310 (April 2001) p.27 (USA)
video review

Close-up vol.5 no.2 (August 1929) p.143 (UK)
article

Close-up vol.5 no.3 (September 1929) (UK)
illustrated review

Close-up vol.6 no.2 (February 1930) p.138 (UK)
article

Dada/Surrealism no.15 (1987) pp.128-142; 143-158 (USA)
article; illustrated article

Empire no.177 (March 2004) p.35 (UK)
illustrated review, credits

Empire no.186 (December 2004) p.179 (UK)
illustrated dvd review

Empire no.201 (March 2006) pp.157-162 (UK)
illustrated article, advertisement

Empire no.203 (May 2006) pp.84-85 (UK)
illustrated article

Film Forum vol.6 no.6 (March 1951) p.6 (UK)
review

Films and Filming vol.15 no.4 (January 1969) p.45 (UK)
review

Literature/Film Quarterly vol.5 no.1 (Winter 1977) pp.38-49 (USA)
illustrated article

Monthly Film Bulletin vol.35 no.419 (December 1968) p.205 (UK)
credits, synopsis, review

Movietone News no.58-59 (14 August 1978) pp.17-21 (USA)
article

Positif no.146 (January 1973) pp.6-13 (France)
illustrated article

Positif no.547 (September 2006) p.68 (France)
illustrated dvd review

Revue Belge du Cinéma no.33-35 (1993) p.whole issue (Belgium)
illustrated article

Revue du Cinéma vol.1 no.4 (15 October 1929) pp.67-68 (France)
review

Screen vol.17 no.4 (Winter 1976/1977) pp.24-33 (UK)
article

Screen vol.18 no.3 (Autumn 1977) pp.55-119 (UK)
illustrated article

Sight and Sound vol.47 no.1 (Winter 1977/1978) pp.2-5 (UK)
article

Sight and Sound vol.15 no.1 (January 2005) p.74-75 (UK)
dvd review

Sight and Sound vol.4 no.4 (April 1994) p.14-16; 62 (UK)
illustrated article; note

OTHER SOURCES

National Film Theatre Programmes February 2004 p.19 (UK)
illustrated listing

KEYWORDS

animals, ants, avant garde, bicycles, clouds, cows, donkeys, eyes, insects, knives, the moon, mutilation, pianos, priests, razors, severed hands, surrealism, transvestism

Last Updated: 20 August, 2009