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6.3/10   1,243 votes
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Director:
Dusan Makavejev
Writer:
Dusan Makavejev (writer)
Contact:
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Release Date:
12 June 1974 (France) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama more
Plot:
The intercut story of two women: a nearly-mute beauty queen who descends into withdrawal and madness... more | add synopsis
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User Comments:
Brave, bold and very well shot more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Carole Laure ... Miss Monde 1984 / Miss Canada
Pierre Clémenti ... Potemkin Sailor
Anna Prucnal ... Anna Planeta / Capt. Ann
Sami Frey ... El Macho
Jane Mallett ... PDG / Chastity Belt Lady
Roy Callender ... Jeremiah Muscle

John Vernon ... Mr. Kapital
Hansi Roll
Therese Schulmeister
Renata Steiger
Berndt Stein
Herbert Stumpfl
Otto Mühl ... Member of Therapie-Komune (as Otto Muehl)
Catherine Sola
Louis Bessières
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Additional Details

Runtime:
98 min | USA:95 min (cut version)
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Company:
Maran Film more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The film was rejected for a UK cinema certificate by the BBFC in 1975. more
Quotes:
Mr. Kapital: [speaking about his new bride Miss Canada] So now I have acquired a lady of the house... A personal jewel... but above all... a purified sanitation system for unchecked waste! more
Movie Connections:
References Triumph des Willens (1935) more
Soundtrack:
Macho more

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10 out of 13 people found the following comment useful:-
Brave, bold and very well shot, 1 October 2007
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Author: christopher-underwood from Greenwich - London

First reaction to this challenging and astonishing film might be to pronounce it depraved or that the director is but then there is no suggestion that one will come away from this unique film a less moral person and so the accusation fails. Certainly I would like to think that for everybody there will be at least some part of this they find hard to take, indeed I don't think I would like to sit too closely to anyone who lapped up every frame. Excess of all kind on display here plus a really difficult striptease among young children. And yet, I think despite some of the more flip and seeming silliness, Makavejev is screaming out for the individual to rediscover his private and public freedom. The Soviet Union comes in for most of the kicking, but then why wouldn't it in 1974 when they were still presiding over the director's birthplace and still denying the massacre of Poles so distressingly shown in original b/w footage. Personally, having previously only encountered Otto Muehl through the films of Kurt Kren, I found his antics here the hardest to take. Here the overt element of homoerotic SM as overweight men spat and sicked up over each other seemed to go further than the catharsis of those other movies. But hey someone might find those bit's the best. Brave, bold and very well shot with a marvellous soundtrack.

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