Salvador Dalí was shown". Both of these films, "Un Chien Andalou" and "L'Age d'Or", have had a tremendous impact on the independent surrealist film movement. "If "Un Chien Andalou" stands as the supreme record of Surrealism's adventures into the realm of the unconscious, then "L'Âge d'Or" is perhaps the most trenchant and implacable expression of its revolutionary intent". Dalí worked with other famous filmmakers, such as Alfred Hitchcock. The most well-known of his film projects is probably the dream sequence in Hitchcock's "Spellbound", which delves into themes of psychoanalysis. Hitchcock needed a dreamlike quality to his film, which dealt with the idea
Pierre Batcheff Pierre Batcheff Pierre Batcheff (born "Piotr Bachev"; 23 June 1907 in Harbin – 12 April 1932 in Paris) was a French actor of Russian descent. He was a high-profile cast during the 1920s and early 1930s and among his best-known films was "Un Chien Andalou" (1929), directed by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. From 1930 until his death, he was married to French film editor Denise Batcheff. Born in Harbin, he grew up in Saint Petersburg, until his family emigrated to Geneva, Switzerland. In 1921, Batcheff moved to Paris where he first worked as a theatre actor, but soon entered