The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

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.

Comedy

Fernando Rey

(Don Rafael)

Delphine Seyrig

(Mme Thevenot)

Paul Frankeur

(M. Thevenot)

Stéphane Audran

(Alice Sénéchal)

Bulle Ogier

(Florence)

Jean-Pierre Cassel

(M. Sénéchal)

Julien Bertheau

(Monseigneur Dufour)

Claude Piéplu

(Le Colonel)

Michel Piccoli

(Le Ministre)

François Maistre

(Delecluze)

Pierre Maguelon

(Le sergent de police)

Maxence Mailfort

(Traum-Sergeant)

Milena Vukotić

(Ines)

Maria Gabriella Maione

(Terroristin)

Muni

(Bäuerin)

Georges Douking

(Gärtner)

Christian Baltauss

(Lt. Hubert de Rochcahin)

Bernard Musson

(Serveur)

Jacques Rispal

(Un 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

(Une cliente du salon de thé (uncredited))

Roger Caccia

(Le pianiste du salon de thé (uncredited))

Olivier Bauchet

François Guilloteau

Jean-Claude Jarry

Jean Revel

Diane Vernon