The Year of the Cannibals

Year: 1969

Runtime: 88 mins

Language: Italian

Director: Liliana Cavani

Drama

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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