Manifesto (1988)

Directed by

Dušan Makavejev

Genre

drama film, comedy film, comedy drama

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

1h 36m

Rating

4.0 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Revolutionaries try to kill a king in a small central European country. The police are too bumbling to stop them.

absurdistsatiricaloffbeatplayfulfarcicalwryquirkywhimsical

What happens

Manifesto is a 1988 American comedy drama film written and directed by Dušan Makavejev and starring Camilla Søeberg, Alfred Molina, Simon Callow and Eric Stoltz. It was filmed in what was Yugoslavia under the working title, "For a Night of Love", and is based on the novella Pour une nuit d'amour by Émile Zola. The screenplay concerns an attempt by revolutionaries to assassinate an autocratic central European monarch, and the inept police state that tries to find and stop them. Callow, who plays the character of Hunt, documented the production of the film in his 1990 book Shooting the Actor. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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