Country: France
Year: 1985
Duration: 90'


We are in a society in the future, in an offcolor and polluted metropolis enslaved under the rule of a mad architect (Laurent Terzieff) and his cohorts. The city is dominated by the "Building" an enormous bordello run by an ethyl pimp (Richard Bohringer) and harboring prostitutes without illusions. The "Bled" stretches all around the Building. It is a desolate noman'sland where there is still a bit of human warmth and a sense of freedom left. One of the young women (Anna, Agnès Soral) rejects the law of the "Building" and flees into the country followed by a band of killers (Niels Arestrup, Roland Blanche, and Xavier Deluc). She is at first helped by young people from the resistance group Freedom. After they are exterminated, she finds refuge with Diesel, an exwrestler and truck driver, and Mickey, a sort of saloonkeeper. Diesel takes the women under his protection and, from inside their fourwheel drive, they take on the decisive struggle against the "Building".

Biography

film director

Robert Kramer

Robert Kramer was born in New York in 1940. He studied philosophy and Western European History at Swarthmore College and Stanford University. He has written two unpublished novels, numerous poems, plays and short stories. In 1965 he organized the Newark Community Project (N-CUP) in an African-American community. He worked as a reporter in Latin America for various American publications. He worked with Peter Gessner on a film on the guerrilla movement in Venezuela. In 1966 he created Alpha 60 with Norman Fruchter, Robert Machover, Peter Gessner, and Mike Robinson. It was a sort of free cooperative of director-producers who later were channelled into the Newsreel movement, which Kramer helped found and organize. Kramer's Newsreel experience lasted from 1967 to 1971, during which about sixty short- and middle-length films were produced - documentaries, films of struggle, and agitation films. In the early 1980's he moved to Europe, and he currently is living and working in Paris.

FILMOGRAFIA

Regista/Director: Faln [Faln, 1965, In the Country [In campagna, 1966], The Edge [Il margine, 1967], Ice (id., 1969), People's War [La guerra del popolo, 19691, Milestones [Pietre miliari, 1975], Scenes from the Class Struggle in Portugal (Scene di lotta di classe dal Portogallo, 1979), Guns (Fucili, 1980), Un grand jour (en France) - Naissance [A Great Day (in France) - Birth / Un gran giorno (in Francia) - Nascita, 1981], A toute allure [As fast as you can / A tutta velocità, 1982], La peur [The fear / La paura, 1983], Sarkis al Woodrow Wilson - Musée d'Art Moderne [Sarkis at Woodrow Wilson - Museum of Modern Art / Sarkis at Woodrow Wilson - Museo d'Arte Moderna, 1984], Notre nazi / Unser Nazi [Our Nazi / Il nostro nazista, 1984], Diesel [Diesel, 1985], Un plan d'enfer [A Plan of Hell / Un piano infernale, 1986], X-Country [X-Country, 1987, inedito], Doc's Kingdom [Il regno di Doc, 1987], Route One / USA [Route One / USA, 1989], Dear Doc [Caro Doc, 1989, inedito], Maquette (brouillon de film) [Scale model (Draft of a Film) / Modello (Abbozzo di film) , 1990, inedito, incompiuto], Berlin 10/90 [Berlin 10/90, 1990-91], Sous le vent [Leeward / Sottovento, 1991], Series of Videoletters: Steve Dwoskin / Robert Kramer [Serie di videolettere: Steve Dwoskin / Robert Kramer, 1991, inedito], Ecrire contre l'oubli: pour Fidel Intrusca Fernández, Pérou [Writing against forgetting: for Fidel Intrusca Fernández, Peru / Scrivere contro l'oblio: per Fidel Intrusca Fernández, Perù, 1991], Point de départ / Starting Place (Starting Place / t.l. Punto di partenza, 1993), La Roue: Greg Lemond - Andrew Hampsten [The Wheel: Greg Lemond - Andrew Hampsten / La ruota: Greg Lemond - Andrew Hampsten, 1993], Walk the Walk [Walk the Walk, 1996], Le Manteau / Der Mantel [The Mantle / Il manto, 1996], Ghosts of Electricity [Fantasmi dell'elettricità, 1997].
Attore, sceneggiatore / Actor, screenwriter: Gestos e fragmentos (Gestures and Fragments / Gesti e frammenti, 1980-82) di Alberto Seixas Santos, Der Stand der Dinge (The State of Things, Lo stato delle cose, 1981) di Wim Wenders.

Cast

& Credits

Director: Robert Kramer.
Screenplay: Richard Morgieve, Robert Kramer, da un'idea originale di Serge Leroy, Richard Morgieve.
Director of photography: Ramon Suarez.
Art director: Max Berto.
Costume designer: Edith Vesperini.
Editor: Colette Landoz.
Music: Barre Phillips.
Sound: Alain Curvelier.
Cast and characters: Gérard Klein (Diesel), Agnès Soral (Anna), Richard Bohringer (Walter), Niels Arestrup (Nelson), Magali Noël (Mickey), Xavier Deluc (Drimi), Roland Blanche, Laurent Terzieff (Finch).
Production company: Vera Belmont per Stephan Films Filmedis Farena Films TF1.
Italian distribution: UGC.
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