The film is filmed in a Surrealist fashion. It lasts for 63 minutes and is in black and white.
The film was financed to the tune of a million francs by the nobleman Vicomte de Noailles, who commissioned a film every year for his wife's birthday. When it was first released, there was a storm of protest. A riot broke out at the Paris premier in 1930. A group of incensed members of the League of Patriots and the Anti-Semitic League threw ink at the screen, assaulted members of the audience and destroyed art work by Salvador Dal�, Max Ernst and others on display in the foyer. It was subsequently banned for nearly 50 years.
The Main theme of the movie: A man and a woman are passionately in love with one another, but their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.
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