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A grin without a cat

Call Number

  • DVD 909.82 G866 (CEN)

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Languages

English, French or German versions (with partial subtitles), Portuguese and Spanish subtitles (over French audio).

Performers

Voices: Jim Broadbent, Cyril Cusack, Robert Kramer, François Maspero, Yves Montand, François Périer, Jorge Semprun, Simone Signoret.

Publication Information

[United States] : Icarus Films Home Video, [2009]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (180 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (16 p.)

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

An overview of the worldwide political upheavals during the Sixties and Seventies. Interweaves footage from the Vietnam War and the antiwar protests in the U.S., May '68 in Paris, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Salvador Allende and the coup in Chile, Che Guevara and Regis Debray in Bolivia, the Shah of Iran, Fidel Castro, et alia. Contains official images, film clips, news coverage trims and neglected reels.

Notes

Documentary.

Title from container.

Originally released in 1977.

Special feature: a 16-page booklet with text by Chris Marker, including the essay Sixties, written May, 2008.

Contents

  • Fragile hands: From Vietnam to Che's death ; May 1968 and all that
  • Severed hands: From Chile to - to what?

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