An avant-garde political satire that takes place in a mythical country in South America. The dictator has been replaced by a look-alike revolutionary, and the dictator's wife has been replaced by a robot.
Production
Bargain-bin futurism that accidentally predicts every vaporwave aesthetic.
Acting
Zbigniew Cybulski plays twins with the chaotic energy of two men who've never met.
Director
Jacques Baratier
Zbigniew Cybulski
Colonel Octavio Prado Roth / Cotal, the rebel
Claudio Gora
Guillermo Moren, banker
Jean Aron
Professor Palmas
Sacha Pitoëff
Sayas
Daniel Emilfork
'Gant de Crin', the assassin
Jacques Dufilho
Theodora, old Indian woman
Gabriel Jabbour
Joachim
Michel de Ré
Gervasio
László Szabó
Pascual
Roger Karl
Terremoche
Jean Galland
Gonziano
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Zbigniew Cybulski was Poland's James Dean, and this was his French New Wave detour before his actual tragic death two years later.
Baratier filmed this during the Algerian War's final years, and the 'mythical' dictatorship was everyone's not-so-subtle way of saying 'this is about France too, actually.'
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