The Year of the Cannibals (1969)

08/23/1969 (IT) • 1h 28m

Drama

Overview

On the streets of a damp metropolis lie the corpses of hundreds and hundreds of boys and girls. No one can give them a resting place because of a law enacted by a repressive State. But the young Antigone, with the help of a foreigner, Tiresias, violates this rule in the name of pietas, undermining the established order.

Top Billed Cast

Britt Ekland

Antigone

Marino Masé

Ismene's Fiancé

Francesco Leonetti

Prime Minister

Alfredo Bianchini

as Alfrfdo Bianchini

Alessandro Cane

Commissaire de la Sûreté Nationale

Cora Mazzoni

Antigone's mother


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Status

Released

Original Language

Italian

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

brother

fascism

symbolism

based on play or musical

death

milan city

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