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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Sean Lynch | ... | Commentary (voice) | |
| Mick Jagger | ... | Self - The Rolling Stones | |
| Brian Jones | ... | Self - The Rolling Stones | |
| Keith Richards | ... | Self - The Rolling Stones (as Keith Richard) | |
| Charlie Watts | ... | Self - The Rolling Stones | |
| Bill Wyman | ... | Self - The Rolling Stones | |
| Anne Wiazemsky | ... | Eve Democracy | |
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Frankie Dymon | ... | Black power militant (as Frankie Dymon Jnr.) |
| Danny Daniels | ... | Black power militant | |
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Ilario Bisi-Pedro | ||
| Roy Stewart | ... | Black power militant | |
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Linbert Spencer | ||
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Tommy Ansah | ... | (as Tommy Ansar) |
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Godard's documentation of late 1960s Western counter-culture, examining the Black Panthers, referring to works by LeRoi Jones and Eldridge Cleaver. Other notable subjects are the role of news media, the mediated image, a growing technocratic society, women's liberation, the May revolt in France and the power of language. Cutting between three major scenes, including the Rolling Stones in the studio, the film is visually intercut with Eve Democracy (Wiazemsky) using graffiti which amalgamates organisations, corporations and ideologies. Godard also examines the role of the revolutionary within Western culture. Although he believes Western culture needs to be destroyed, it can only be done so by the rejection of intellectualisation. "There is only one way to be an intellectual revolutionary, and that is to give up being an intellectual" Written by <gary.elshaw@vuw.ac.nz>
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22 April 1969 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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During the course of the film, the lyrics of the song. 'Sympathy for the Devil', change from "Who killed Kennedy?" to "Who killed the Kennedys?", reflecting the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy whilst the film was being made. See more »Alternate Versions
Jean-Luc Godard's original director's cut (titled "One Plus One") runs approximately 110 minutes and consists largely of additional footage of the black power militants. The film's producers were dissatisfied with this cut and deleted 11 minutes, changed the title to "Sympathy for the Devil" to underscore the Stones connection, and added the final version of the title song to the film's soundtrack, over a freeze-frame of the last shot. These changes were all made without Godard's knowledge; when he finally saw them at the film's London Film Festival premiere, he allgedly went berserk and physically attacked one of the producers. See more »On IMDb TV, you can catch Hollywood hits and popular TV series at no cost. Select any poster below to play the movie, totally free!
ABKCO, not exactly a cultural or artistic enterprise obtained the rights to Godard's original film & cut titled 'One Pus One' , as well a large part of the Stones song catalog in a management dispute & subsequent separation between the two.
The 'Sympathy' release is significantly different than the original 'One Plus One', with much of the Stones studio material edited out for reasons unknown.
Huge clips of the development of the song have simply vanished, while the political scenes, rhetoric and narration remain intact.
What a shame, as I doubt very much we will ever see the 'One Plus One' Godard cut anywhere, ever.