Country: France
Year: 1969
Duration: 95'
An American superhero is invited to Paris by the head of Freedom Inc. to fight the “reds.” He is helped by a scantily-clothed femme fatale, while a Stalinist Mujik Man and a Maoist inflatable dragon do battle against him. The wild satire directed in 1969 by Klein, an American photographer who expatriated to France and the author of Far From Vietnam, and Eldridge Cleaver, mixes pop art, comic strips and trash that was ahead of its time.
Biography
film director
William Klein
FILMOGRAFIA
Broadway by Light (cm, 1958), Cassius le grand (cm, doc., 1964), Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? (1966), Loin du Vietnam (Lontano dal Vietnam, ep., doc., 1967), Festival panafricain d’Alger (doc., 1969), Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee (doc., 1969 ), Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther (doc., 1970), Le couple témoin (1977), Hollywood, California: A Loser’s Opera (1977), Grands soirs & petits matins (doc., 1978), The Little Richard Story (doc., 1980), The French (doc., 1982), Contacts (cm, 1983), Ralentis (cm, 1984), Mode in France (doc., 1984), Babilée ’91 (doc., 1992), In and Out of Fashion (doc., 1998), Messiah (doc., 1999).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
William Klein
fotografia/cinematography
Pierre Lhomme
montaggio/film editing
Anne-Marie Cotret
scenografia/production design
Jacques Dugied
costumi/costume design
Janine Klein
musica/music
Michel Colombier, Serge Gainsbourg
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Delphine Seyrig (Marie-Madeleine), John Abbey (Mr Freedom), Donald Pleasence (Dr Freedom), Jean-Claude Drouot (Dick Sensass), Serge Gainsbourg (M. Drugstore)
produttori/producers
Guy Belfond, Christian Thivat, Michel Zemer
produzione/production
Films du Rond-Point, O.P.E.R.A.
William Klein
fotografia/cinematography
Pierre Lhomme
montaggio/film editing
Anne-Marie Cotret
scenografia/production design
Jacques Dugied
costumi/costume design
Janine Klein
musica/music
Michel Colombier, Serge Gainsbourg
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Delphine Seyrig (Marie-Madeleine), John Abbey (Mr Freedom), Donald Pleasence (Dr Freedom), Jean-Claude Drouot (Dick Sensass), Serge Gainsbourg (M. Drugstore)
produttori/producers
Guy Belfond, Christian Thivat, Michel Zemer
produzione/production
Films du Rond-Point, O.P.E.R.A.
