Un Chien Andalou (French pronunciation: [œ j dalu], An Andalusian Dog) is a 1929 Franco-Spanish silent surrealist short film by Spanish director Luis Buñuel and artist Salvador Dalí. It was Buñuels first film and was initially released in 1929 with a limited showing at Studio des Ursulines in Paris, but became popular and ran for eight months.[1]

Un Chien Andalou has no plot in the conventional sense of the word. The chronology of the film is disjointed, jumping from the initial once upon a time to eight years later without the events or characters changing. It uses dream logic in narrative flow that can be described in terms of then-popular Freudian free association, presenting a series of tenuously related scenes.

Cast

Simone Mareuil as Young Girl (as Simonne Mareuil)
Pierre Batcheff as Young Man and Second Young Man (as Pierre Batchef)
Luis Buñuel as Man in Prologue (uncredited)
Salvador Dalí as Seminarist and as Man on Beach (uncredited)
Robert Hommet as Third Young Man (uncredited)
Kieran Agterberg as Seminarist (uncredited)
Fano Messan as Androgynous Young Woman (uncredited)
Jaime Miravilles as Fat seminarist (uncredited)