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23 November 1977 (France)
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1 nomination
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Cast
(in credits order) | Laurence Guvillier | ... | Narrator (voice) |
| Davos Hanich | ... | Narrator (voice) |
| François Maspero | ... | Narrator (voice) |
 | Yves Montand | ... | Narrator (voice) |
| François Périer | ... | Narrator (voice) |
| Sandra Scarnati | ... | Narrator (voice) |
| Jorge Semprún | ... | Narrator (voice) |
 | Simone Signoret | ... | Narrator (voice) |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Salvador Allende | ... | Himself (archive footage) (uncredited) |
 | Fidel Castro | ... | Himself (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Charles de Gaulle | ... | Himself (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Giangiacomo Feltrinelli | ... | Himself (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Qing Jiang | ... | Herself (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| V.I. Lenin | ... | Himself (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| André Malraux | ... | Himself (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Zedong Mao | ... | Himself (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Chris Marker | ... | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) |
 | Richard Nixon | ... | Himself (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Augusto Pinochet | ... | Himself (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Georges Pompidou | ... | Himself (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Joseph Stalin | ... | Himself (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Nguyen Giap Vo | ... | Himself (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Enlai Zhou | ... | Himself (archive footage) (uncredited) |
Directed by | |||
| Chris Marker | (as Chris. Marker) | ||
Writing credits(in alphabetical order) | ||
| Chris Marker | ||
Original Music by | |||
| Luciano Berio | |||
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| Pierre-William Glenn | |||
| Willy Kurant | |||
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| Chris Marker | |||
Production CompaniesDistributors
- First Run Features (2002) (USA) (subtitled)
- Icarus Films (2002) (USA) (subtitled)
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"Le fond de l'air est rouge" - France (original title)
"The Base of the Air Is Red" - International (English title)
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"The Base of the Air Is Red" - International (English title)
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240 min | 177 min (1993 version)
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Black and White | Color (Eastmancolor)
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The untranslatable French title is a play on words suggesting that revolution was in the air but not on the ground. The English title, "A Grin without a Cat", has a similar meaning. Director Chris Marker has given it the subtitle "Scenes from the Third World War 1967-1977".See more »
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Edited into Histoire(s) du cinéma: Le contrôle de l'univers (1998) (V)See more »
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As always Marker give us a breathtaking beautiful movie to shake our minds and think about the world around us. Its sad to realize through the images that even when the movie is about the history of 50 years back now, the ideologies, the problems and the unfairness of the world remains pretty the same. The compilation of images, documents, videos, interviews is excellent. How can Marker be everywhere and always in the right moment? Just because is Marker I guess. Excellent movie for people of any age or nationality in the mood of caring about the society and enjoying Marker's mastery using the video as a real communicator of deep thoughts.