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Director:
Guy Debord
Writers:
Guy Debord (book)
Guy Debord (screenplay)
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Cast

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Leonid Brezhnev ... Himself (archive footage)
Fidel Castro ... Himself (archive footage)
Guy Debord ... Narrator (voice)
Jacques Duclos ... Himself (archive footage)
Robert Fabre ... Himself (archive footage)
Nino Ferrer ... Himself (archive footage)
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing ... Himself (archive footage)
Johnny Hallyday ... Himself (archive footage)

George Harrison ... Himself (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler ... Himself (archive footage)
Henry Kissinger ... Himself (archive footage)
Alexei Kosygin ... Himself (archive footage)
Georges Marchais ... Himself (archive footage)

Paul McCartney ... Himself (archive footage)
Eddy Mitchell ... Himself (archive footage)
François Mitterrand ... Himself (archive footage)
Richard Nixon ... Himself (archive footage)
Georges Pompidou ... Himself (archive footage)
Georges Séguy ... Himself (archive footage)
Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber ... Himself (archive footage)
Joseph Stalin ... Himself (archive footage)

Ringo Starr ... Himself (archive footage)
Mao Zedong ... Himself (archive footage)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Society of the Spectacle
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Runtime:
France:88 min
Country:
France
Language:
French
Company:
Simar Films more

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4 out of 38 people found the following comment useful:-
The worst movie ever made, 18 January 2008
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Author: Roedy Green from Victoria, BC. Canada

I think this was the worst movie I have ever seen, though I had a pretty low opinion of Last Year at Marienbad. It was so bad, I started to laugh. It consists of black and white footage of crowds, bullying soldiers and masses of people, punctuated everyone once in a while by topless women writhing and pawing at their bodies, and one scene of a young male pop singer silently writhing on the ground as if having an epileptic fit. The sound track is in French. I think the script was possibly composed by computer stringing together random abstract nouns. The effect is hypnotic and meaningless, though oddly depressing.

There is only the most tenuous thematic relationship between the narration and the video. I kept thinking the movie was over, and it would pick up again like some nightmare I could not wake from. It was amateurish and incredibly self indulgent and self important. The film could have been easily condensed to 60 seconds to put across its message, that civilisation imposes conformity and an empty pursuit of commodities.

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