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Encyclopedia > L'Âge d'or

L'Âge d'Or (The Golden Age) is a 1930 surrealist film directed by Luis Buñuel and written by Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Surrealism is an artistic movement and an aesthetic philosophy that aims for the liberation of the mind by emphasizing the critical and imaginative powers of the unconscious. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as part of the entertainment industry. ... Luis Buñuel ( February 22, 1900 – July 29, 1983) was a Spanish-born surrealist filmmaker and poet. ... Salvador Dalí as photographed in 1934 by Carl Van Vechten Salvador Domenec Felip Jacint Dalí Domenech ( May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989) was an important Catalan- Spanish painter, best known for his surrealist works. ...


The film was financed to the tune of a million francs by the nobleman Vicomte de Noailles, who commissioned a film every year for his wife's birthday. When it was first released, there was a storm of protest. A riot broke out at the Paris premiere in 1930. A group of incensed members of the League of Patriots and the Anti-Semitic League threw ink at the screen, assaulted members of the audience and destroyed art work by Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst and others on display in the foyer. It was subsequently banned for nearly 50 years. The franc is the name of several currency units. ... The Eiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...


The film consisted of a series of 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.


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Max Ernst (April 2, 1891 - April 1, 1976) was a German painter. ...

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