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Tony Bicât’s radical, found-footage record of a revolutionary act, in which three dissidents kidnap a cabinet and torture a cabinet minister.

Drama 1973 41 mins Silent Not rated

Director: Tony Bicât

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Overview

Presented as found footage à la The Blair Witch Project, this chilling and provocative fake home movie presents the story of three dissidents and their plan to commit a revolutionary act on film. Will Knightley (father of Keira) plays one of the guerrillas who kidnap and torture a cabinet minister.

Tony Bicât and scriptwriter Howard Brenton explore the consequences and co-option of political violence with hard, grubby directness. Pre-punk in its semi-nihilistic attack on bourgeois values, this is strong stuff.

Director

Tony Bicât

Featuring

Hilary Charlton , Will Knightley , Henry Woolf and William Hoyland

Genres

Drama

Certificate

Not rated

Country

United Kingdom

Language

No Dialogue with English subtitles

Accessibility

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