Can Dialectics Break Bricks? (1973)

Original title

La dialectique peut-elle casser des briques ?

Directed by

René Viénet

Genre

martial arts film, détournement

Country

France

Runtime

1h 30m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A kung fu film is redubbed with new dialogue about class struggle and revolutionary politics. The original fight scenes are repurposed to illustrate Marxist ideas in a deliberately goofy way.

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What happens

Can Dialectics Break Bricks? (French: La dialectique peut-elle casser des briques?) is a 1973 Situationist film produced by the French director René Viénet which explores the development of class conflict through revolutionary agitation against a backdrop of graphic kung-fu fighting. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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