Mr. Freedom, a bellowing good-ol'-boy superhero decked out in copious football padding, jets to France to cut off a Commie invasion from Switzerland. A destructive, arrogant patriot in tight pants, Freedom joins forces with Marie Madeleine to combat lefty freethinkers, as well as the insidious evildoers Moujik Man and inflatable Red China Man, culminating in a star-spangled showdown.
Production
Inflatable Red China Man will haunt your dreams.
Costume
Football padding as super-suit: deranged genius.
Direction
Klein's advertising eye weaponized against America itself.
Director
William Klein
John Abbey
Mr. Freedom
Delphine Seyrig
Marie-Madeline
Philippe Noiret
Moujik Man
Serge Gainsbourg
Mr. Drugstore
Catherine Rouvel
Marie-Rouge
Jean-Claude Drouot
Dick Sensass
Yves Lefebvre
Jacques Occident
Rufus
Freddie Fric
Donald Pleasence
Dr. Freedom
Sami Frey
Christ
Monique Chaumette
Virgin Mary
Raoul Billerey
Johnny Cadillac
Jean-Luc Bideau
Fighter
Jean-Claude Bouillon
Albert Dray
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Klein was a legendary fashion photographer who shot for Vogue before turning his commercial aesthetic into political weaponry—this film is basically an anti-American ad campaign.
The French critics initially dismissed it as anti-American propaganda; American critics ignored it entirely. Both missed that Klein was satirizing performance of ideology itself.
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