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The Year of the Cannibals (1969) Plot Summary Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1969 · 88 mins · Italian
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- Directed by
- Liliana Cavani
- Starring
- Delia Boccardo, Britt Ekland, Tomas Milian, Pierre Clémenti, Marino Masé, Carla Cassola
On the rain‑slick streets of a bleak metropolis, the bodies of countless boys and girls lie unburied, forbidden by a draconian law of the authoritarian State. Defying this edict, the determined young Antigone teams with the outsider Tiresias, risking everything out of pietas to give the dead a proper resting place and to challenge the oppressive order.
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