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.
- Director
- Luis Buñuel
- Signature
- Craft · Humour · Tension
- Worldwide
- $103,230
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
20 billed performers
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Movie DNA
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Story overview
What It's About
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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.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie returned 0.1× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $800,000
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $103,230
- Release date
- Sep 15, 1972
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- Spanish, French
- Country
- France
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