| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (104 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
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digital |
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video file MPEG-4 Flash |
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Title from title frames. |
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Film |
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In Process Record. |
| Performer |
Adolfo Celi, Alan Bates, Françoise Christophe, Genevieve Bujold, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Serrault, Micheline Presle, Pierre Brasseur |
| Event |
Originally produced by Cohen Film Collection in 1966. |
| Summary |
During World War I, Scottish soldier Private Plumpick is sent on a mission to a village in the French countryside to disarm a bomb set by the retreating German army. Plumpick encounters a strange town occupied by the former residents of the local psychiatric hospital who escaped after the villagers deserted. Assuming roles like Bishop, Duke, barber, and circus ringmaster, they warmly accept the visitor as their King of Hearts. With his reconnaissance and bomb-defusing mission looming, Plumpick starts to prefer the acceptance of the insane locals over the insanity of the war raging outside. *"A surrealistic jewel of a comedy which you realize, when you can catch your breath between laughs, has made the case for the sanity of the lunatics and the madness of the war-waging sane." - Charles Champlin, **Los Angeles Times*** |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Language |
In English,French,German |
| Subject |
Motion pictures, French.
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Foreign films.
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Motion Pictures.
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Comedy.
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Motion pictures.
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| Genre |
Feature films.
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| Added Author |
de Broca, Philippe, film director.
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Celi, Adolfo, actor.
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Bates, Alan, actor.
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Christophe, Françoise, actor.
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Bujold, Genevieve, actor.
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Brialy, Jean-Claude, actor.
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Serrault, Michel, actor.
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Presle, Micheline, actor.
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Brasseur, Pierre, actor.
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Cohen Film Collection (Firm), Distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm), Distributor.
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| Music No. |
6724022 Kanopy |
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