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7.4/10   573 votes
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Director:
Writer:
Claude Faraldo (writer)
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Release Date:
October 1980 (USA) more
Genre:
Tagline:
The urban caveman. more
Awards:
2 wins more
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Anarchist assault more (17 total)

Cast

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Michel Piccoli ... Anonymous worker
Béatrice Romand ... La soeur de Themroc
Marilù Tolo ... La secrétaire
Francesca Romana Coluzzi ... La voisine
Jeanne Herviale ... La mère de Themroc
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jean Aron
Paul Barrault
Romain Bouteille ... Un ouvrier / Le patron hargneux / Le voisin / Le flic
Stéphane Bouy
Coluche ... Le jeune voisin / Un ouvrier / Un flic
Madeleine Damien
Patrick Dewaere ... Le maçon
François Dyrek ... Un policier
Michel Fortin ... Un ouvrier / Un CRS
Gégé
Henri Guybet ... Un ouvrier
Jean-Michel Haas
François Joxe
Marie Kéruzoré
Philippe Manesse
Miou-Miou ... La jeune voisine
Catherine Mitry
Popeck ... Le tailleur de crayons (as Jean Herbert)
Roger Riffard
Sotha
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Runtime:
Germany:110 min | USA:100 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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1.66 : 1 more
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26 out of 33 people found the following comment useful.
Anarchist assault, 17 August 2003
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Author: robtclements from Sydney, Australia

In a time when blind respect for anyone with the arrogance to call themselves an authority has reached plague proportions, we need to rediscover Claude Faraldo's anarchist assault Themroc as a matter of extreme urgency. Whether as a surrealistic revenge fantasy that makes Dirty Harry look like Kindergarden Cop or simply as one of the funniest films ever made, the film takes nothing seriously (least of all itself) as it sets out to outrage every convention of decent law abiding filmmaking ever unwritten. It's hard to choose just one pristine moment to symbolise this work - peraps the gendarme's blind pride in the stupidity of his uniform just before he becomes Themroc's latest meal; or possibly Michel Piccoli's curious assistance in his own death as his cave family are carefully walled in - but the work is blistering in its uncompromising joyous anti-logic. Commercial traditionalists like Bunuel may have made newer - even angrier - statements; but noone has ever revelled in their own extremism than Faraldo. The sooner it turns up on DVD, the better.

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