Андалузский пёс
Painlevé first came to the cinema as an actor, alongside Michel Simon, and also as assistant director in the René Sti unfinished film "L'inconnue des six jours" "(The Unknown Woman of Six Days)", 1926. (Later, he would appear as "chief ant handler" in Luis Buñuel's "Un Chien Andalou", 1928). Soon, he was shooting his own films, starting with "L'œuf d'épinoche : de la fécondation à l'éclosion", 1927.