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A commissioner in this film demands that the Minister of the Interior tell him why they are releasing a prisoner, but gives up after the minister is repeatedly drowned out by noises of a plane taking off. Near the beginning of this film, a group of friends travel to an unusually empty restaurant and eventually realize a funeral is being held in the next room. In this film, a young terrorist is captured while attempting to assassinate an ambassador from the fictional country of (*) Miranda. (10[1])A man begins to describe a dream in this film, (10[1])but corrects himself to say that he dreamed that his friend Senechal dreamed that the central characters’ dinner turned out to be onstage in front of a theatrical audience; (10[2])the first half of this film follows those six characters’ attempts to dine together. For 10 (10[1])points, Luis Buñuel directed what surrealist comedy satirizing the lives of the title socioeconomic class? ■END■

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