L'Âge d'or

A surrealist masterpiece.

  • Rated 6.8 out of 10
  • Movie
  • 1930
  • 1h 3m
  • Romance
  • Comedy
  • Drama

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, Lya Lys, Caridad de Laberdesque, Max Ernst

Cast

  • Gaston Modot

    Gaston Modot

    The Man

  • Lya Lys

    Lya Lys

    The Woman

  • Caridad de Laberdesque

    Marquise' Chambermaid / Girl at Blangis' Castle

  • Max Ernst

    Bandit Leader in the Hut

  • Josep Llorens Artigas

    Josep Llorens Artigas

    Governor

  • Lionel Salem

    Lionel Salem

    Duke of Blangis

  • Germaine Noizet

    Marquise of X

  • Duchange

    Orchestra Conductor

  • Bonaventura Ibáñez

    Marquis of X

  • Jean Aurenche

    Jean Aurenche

    Bandit (uncredited)

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