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2 unusual facts about L'Age d'Or


Jean Chiappe

This was Buñuel's payback for Chiappe's role in banning the Buñuel-Dalí film L'Age d'Or (1930), when Chiappe was Prefect of Police for Paris.

Surrealist cinema

Other films include Un Chien Andalou and L'Age d'Or by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí; Buñuel went on to direct many more films, with varying degrees of Surrealist influence.


Lya Lys

In 1930, Lys returned to Paris to star in Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel's surrealistic film, L'Age d'Or (1930), considered by many as her most memorable performance.

The Blood of a Poet

This, combined with the riotous reception of another controversial Noailles-produced film, L'Âge d'Or, led to Charles de Noailles' expulsion from the famous Jockey-Club de Paris, and he was even threatened with excommunication by the Catholic Church.


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