1972

1h 41m

7.5(862 votes)

Comedy

Overview

In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.

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Cast & Crew

38 members

Acting

Fernando Rey

Don Rafael

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Delphine Seyrig

Simone Thévenot

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Paul Frankeur

François Thévenot

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Stéphane Audran

Alice Sénéchal

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Bulle Ogier

Florence

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Jean-Pierre Cassel

Henri Sénéchal

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Julien Bertheau

Monsignor Dufour

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Claude Piéplu

Colonel

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Michel Piccoli

Interior Minister

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François Maistre

Inspector Delecluze

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Pierre Maguelon

Police Sergeant

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Maxence Mailfort

Sergeant Recounting Dream

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Milena Vukotić

Ines

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Maria Gabriella Maione

Guerrilla

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Muni

Peasant

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Georges Douking

Gardener

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Christian Baltauss

Lt. Hubert de Rochcahin

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Bernard Musson

Waiter

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Jacques Rispal

Gendarme

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Robert Le Béal

Couturier

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Robert Benoît

(uncredited)

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Anne-Marie Deschodt

(uncredited)

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Ellen Bahl

(uncredited)

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Jean-Michel Dhermay

(uncredited)

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Jean Degrave

(uncredited)

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Sébastien Floche

(uncredited)

Production

Claude Jaeger

(uncredited)

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Pierre Lary

(uncredited)

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Alix Mahieux

(uncredited)

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Robert Party

(uncredited)

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Amparo Soler Leal

(uncredited)

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Madeleine Bouchez

Tea Salon Patron (uncredited)

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Roger Caccia

Tea Salon Pianist (uncredited)

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Olivier Bauchet

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François Guilloteau

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Jean-Claude Jarry

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Jean Revel

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Diane Vernon

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