Start the Revolution Without Me (1970)
- Directed by
- Bud Yorkin
- Genre
- comedy, history
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Rating
- 6.0 of 10 from 46 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Two peasants get mixed up with lookalike noblemen during the French Revolution. Mistaken identity leads to a series of farcical events.
comedicchaoticlightheartedparodicslapstickfast-pacedquirky
What happens
Start the Revolution Without Me is a 1970 British-French-American period comedy film directed by Bud Yorkin, and starring Gene Wilder, Donald Sutherland, Hugh Griffith, Jack MacGowran, Billie Whitelaw, Orson Welles (playing himself as narrator) and Victor Spinetti. The film is set in revolutionary France where two peasants are mistaken for the famous Corsican Brothers. The film is considered a parody of a number of works of historical fiction about the French Revolution and French history in general, including A Tale of Two Cities (1859) by Charles Dickens and two works by Alexandre Dumas, The Corsican Brothers (1844) and The Man in the Iron Mask (1847). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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