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The Year of the Cannibals

Original title: I cannibali
  • 19701970
  • GPGP
  • 1h 28m
IMDb RATING
6.3/10
456
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The Year of the Cannibals (1970)
Drama
The streets of a big city are full of dead bodies but people seem not to notice and pass by indifferently. At the behest of the authorities, the bodies of those citizens who were killed beca... Read allThe streets of a big city are full of dead bodies but people seem not to notice and pass by indifferently. At the behest of the authorities, the bodies of those citizens who were killed because the rebels should serve as a warning. Antigone wants to bury her brother. A young fore... Read allThe streets of a big city are full of dead bodies but people seem not to notice and pass by indifferently. At the behest of the authorities, the bodies of those citizens who were killed because the rebels should serve as a warning. Antigone wants to bury her brother. A young foreigner who speaks a foreign language and will offer his cooperation. Together, they try to ... Read all
IMDb RATING
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456
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    • Liliana Cavani
    • Liliana Cavani(story)
    • Italo Moscati(screenplay)
    • Sophocles(play "Antigone")
  • Stars
    • Britt Ekland
    • Pierre Clémenti
    • Tomas Milian
    • Liliana Cavani
    • Liliana Cavani(story)
    • Italo Moscati(screenplay)
    • Sophocles(play "Antigone")
  • Stars
    • Britt Ekland
    • Pierre Clémenti
    • Tomas Milian
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    • 1User review
    • 18Critic reviews
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    Britt Ekland and Pierre Clémenti in The Year of the Cannibals (1970)
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    Britt Ekland and Pierre Clémenti in The Year of the Cannibals (1970)
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    Britt Ekland and Pierre Clémenti in The Year of the Cannibals (1970)
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    Britt Ekland and Pierre Clémenti in The Year of the Cannibals (1970)
    Britt Ekland and Tomas Milian in The Year of the Cannibals (1970)
    Britt Ekland and Pierre Clémenti in The Year of the Cannibals (1970)
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    Britt Ekland
    Britt Ekland
    • Antigone
    Pierre Clémenti
    Pierre Clémenti
    • Tiresia
    • (as Pierre Clementi)
    Tomas Milian
    Tomas Milian
    • Emone
    Delia Boccardo
    Delia Boccardo
    • Ismene
    Marino Masé
    Marino Masé
    • Ismene's Fiancé
    Francesco Leonetti
    Francesco Leonetti
    • Prime Minister
    Alfredo Bianchini
      Alessandro Cane
      • Commissaire de la Sûreté Nationale
      Cora Mazzoni
      • Antigone's mother
      Francesco Arminio
      • Antigone's father
      Giampiero Frondini
      • TV Speaker
      Sergio Serafini
      • Sergeant
      Giancarlo Caio
      • The Pope
      Carla Cassola
      Massimo Castri
      Giselda Castrini
      Dino Desiata
      Marco Gagliardo
        • Liliana Cavani
        • Liliana Cavani(story) (screenplay)
        • Italo Moscati(screenplay)
        • Sophocles(play "Antigone") (uncredited)
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      • Trivia
        Italian censorship visa # 55039 delivered on 22-11-1969.
      • Crazy credits
        Alfredo Bianchini's credit is misspelled as Alfrfdo Bianchini.
      • Connections
        Featured in Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (2018)
      • Soundtracks
        The Cannibals
        Written by Audrey Nohra (as Nohra) and Ennio Morricone

        Performed by Don Powell

      User reviews1

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      Antigone updating.
      The films of Liliana Cavani have never appealed to me, and I consider most of them (not all) to be among the most obnoxious of those modern cinematic works with a presumed claim to importance.

      THE CANNIBALS is a modern reworking of the drama of Antigone, in the format of a radical political allegory. Set in the city of Milan, where a fascist government leaves the bodies of captured rebels on the streets, it is about Antigone, who wants to bury her dead brother. The character of Tiresias, a zombie-like Pierre Clementi who is about as expressive as the corpses we see lying around during the whole film, speaks an extra-galactic language and likes to eat fish (Christ symbol, GET IT???) Antigone and Tiresias spend much time taking away some of the bodies, placing them in caves, and giving them bread and fishes. Why do the bodies strewn everywhere never decompose, by the way? Oh yes, they are the recurring symbol of the evil of this totalitarian state. How stupid of me. Haimon (Tomas Milian), who defies his father the prime minister, wants to become an animal. But we can hardly care what anybody wants to do in this movie, so preposterous and annoying is it.

      Universally despised by mainstream critics, the movie really deserved all the trashing it got, notably after its New York Film Festival showing. It is irksome, pretentious, and quickly wears on the nerves. The grating music by the usually good Ennio Morricone is not among his best, and sounds like it belongs in a spaghetti western.
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      • ItalianGerry
      • May 20, 2004

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      • Release date
        • April 30, 1970 (Italy)
        • Italy
        • Italian
      • Also known as
        • Milan, Lombardia, Italy
      • Production companies
        • Doria
        • San Marco
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      • 1 hour 28 minutes
        • Mono

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