Torrential

L'Âge d'or

A surrealist masterpiece.

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))

Simone Cottance

(Guest at the Marquis of X's Concert (uncredited))

Marie Berthe Ernst

(Guest at the Marquis of X's Concert (uncredited))

Juan Esplandiu

(Bandit (uncredited))

Pedro Flores

(Bandit (uncredited))

Claude Heymann

(Extra (uncredited))

Valentine Hugo

(Governor's Wife (uncredited))

Jean-Paul Le Chanois

(Duke of Blangis' Follower (uncredited))

Marval

(Defenestrated Bishop (uncredited))

Juan Ramón Masoliver

(Extra (uncredited))

Jaume Miravitlles

(Bandit (uncredited))

Manuel Ángeles Ortiz

(Forester (uncredited))

Jaime Otero

(Extra (uncredited))

Joaquin Peinado

(Guest at the Marquis of X's Concert (uncredited))

Roland Penrose

(Guest at the Marquis of X's Concert (uncredited))

Valentine Penrose

(Woman in Car with Ostensory (uncredited))

Domingo Pruña

(Guest at the Marquis of X's Concert (uncredited))

Jacques Prévert

(Passer-by in the Street (uncredited))

Pierre Prévert

(Péman (uncredited))

Joaquín Roa

(Bandit (uncredited))

Raymond de Sarka

(Guest at the Marquis of X's Concert (uncredited))

Paul Éluard

(Narrator (voice) (uncredited))