Comedy /

Score: 74.7%( 839 votes )

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.

Cast:

Fernando Rey
Don Rafael

Delphine Seyrig
Simone Thévenot

Paul Frankeur
François Thévenot

Stéphane Audran
Alice Sénéchal

Bulle Ogier
Florence

Jean-Pierre Cassel
Henri Sénéchal

Julien Bertheau
Monsignor Dufour

Claude Piéplu
Colonel

Michel Piccoli
Interior Minister

François Maistre
Inspector Delecluze

Pierre Maguelon
Police Sergeant

Maxence Mailfort
Sergeant Recounting Dream

Milena Vukotić
Ines

Maria Gabriella Maione
Guerrilla

Muni
Peasant

Georges Douking
Gardener

Christian Baltauss
Lt. Hubert de Rochcahin

Bernard Musson
Waiter

Jacques Rispal
Gendarme

Robert Le Béal
Couturier

Robert Benoît
(uncredited)

Anne-Marie Deschodt
(uncredited)

Ellen Bahl
(uncredited)

Jean-Michel Dhermay
(uncredited)

Jean Degrave
(uncredited)

Sébastien Floche
(uncredited)

Claude Jaeger
(uncredited)

Pierre Lary
(uncredited)

Alix Mahieux
(uncredited)

Robert Party
(uncredited)

Amparo Soler Leal
(uncredited)

Madeleine Bouchez
Tea Salon Patron (uncredited)

Roger Caccia
Tea Salon Pianist (uncredited)

Olivier Bauchet

François Guilloteau

Jean-Claude Jarry

Jean Revel

Diane Vernon