The Golden Age

L' Âge d'or, humorous drama, France, 1930

DIRECTED BY: Luis Buñuel

The Golden Age

CAST:
Gaston Modot (muškarac),
Lya Lys (djevojka),
Caridad de Laberdesque (sobarica/djevojčica),
Max Ernst (vođa muškaraca u kolibi),
Josep Llorens Artigas (zapovjednik)

SCRIPT:
Luis Buñuel,
Salvador Dalí (based on novel by Marquis de Sad)

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Albert Duverger

MUSIC:
Luis Buñuel,
Georges Van Parys

EDITING:
Luis Buñuel

Synopsis:
This is the directing debut of one of the most famous representatives of surrealism, Luis Buńuel. Zlatno doba is Buńuel’s critique of religion and the bourgeois that starts as a documentary about scorpions. The basic motif becomes a loving couple who are constantly distracted from their attempts to make love.

b/w, 63'

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