The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked 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.
Gaston Modot
The Man
Lya Lys
The Woman
Caridad de Laberdesque
Marquise' Chambermaid / Girl at Blangis' Castle
Max Ernst
Bandit Leader in the Hut
Josep Llorens Artigas
Governor
Lionel Salem
Duke of Blangis
Germaine Noizet
Marquise of X
Duchange
Orchestra Conductor
Bonaventura Ibáñez
Marquis of X
Jean Aurenche
Bandit (uncredited)
Jacques Brunius
Passer-by in the Street (uncredited)
Luis Buñuel
(uncredited)
Jean Castanier
Guest at the Marquis of X's Concert (uncredited)
Juan Castañe
Bandit (uncredited)
Pancho Cossío
Lame Bandit (uncredited)
“A surrealist masterpiece.”
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