film L'Age d'Or

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L'Age d'Or is a 1930 surrealist film directed by Luis Buñuel, co-written with Salvador Dalí, renowned for its shocking, anti-bourgeois imagery and early avant-garde style.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf film
surrealist film
basedOn original screenplay
censorshipStatus banned in France for many years
cinematographyBy Albert Duverger
countryOfOrigin France
coWriter Luis Buñuel
Salvador Dalí
depicts blasphemous religious scenes
violent and erotic imagery
director Luis Buñuel
distributionFormat theatrical release
editedBy Luis Buñuel
era interwar period
features references to the Marquis de Sade
vignettes attacking social conventions
follows film Un Chien Andalou
surface form: Un Chien Andalou
genre avant-garde film
experimental film
surrealism
hasColor black-and-white
hasCultStatus cult film
hasReception initially scandalous
later critically acclaimed
hasSetting various locations in and around Paris
hasTheme anti-bourgeois sentiment
critique of the Catholic Church
sexual repression
hasTitleInEnglish The Golden Age
influenced avant-garde filmmakers
surrealist cinema
movement Surrealism
surface form: surrealism
musicBy Georges Auric
notableFor controversial content
early avant-garde style
shocking imagery
originalLanguage French
partOf European avant-garde
surface form: French avant-garde cinema
premiereLocation Paris
premiereYear 1930
producer Charles de Noailles
productionCompany Vicente Huidobro Films
releaseYear 1930
runtimeMinutes 63
screenplayBy Luis Buñuel
Salvador Dalí
soundFilm true
timePeriod early sound era

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Salvador Dalí created film L'Age d'Or
Surrealism hasNotableWork film L'Age d'Or
this entity surface form: L'Âge d'Or