Documentary. Title from container. Voices: Jim Broadbent, Cyril Cusack, Robert Kramer, François Maspero, Yves Montand, François Périer, Jorge Semprun, Simone Signoret. Originally released in 2001; container states 1977. Special feature: a 16-page booklet with text by Chris Marker, including the essay Sixties, written May, 2008.
Contents:
2: From Chile to - to what? 1: From Vietnam to Che's death ; 2: May 1968 and all that -- Part two: Severed hands: 1: From the Prague spring to the so-called "Union of the Left " in France ; 2: From Chile to - to what?
Summary:
An overview of the worldwide political upheavals during the Sixties and Seventies. Interweaves footage from the Vietnam War and the antiwar protests in the U.S., May '68 in Paris, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Salvador Allende and the coup in Chile, Che Guevara and Regis Debray in Bolivia, the Shah of Iran, Fidel Castro, et alia. Contains official images, film clips, news coverage trims and neglected reels.
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