| Country of Origin: |
 United Kingdom |
| Production year: |
1967 |
| Director: |
Don Levy |
| Rating: |
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| UPC [Locale]: |
5-035673-010372 
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| Running time: |
2:23 (143 Min.) |
| Casetype: |
HD Slim |
| Format: |
[Color status unset], Widescreen, Full Frame |
| DVD-Format: |
Single-Sided, Double-Layered |
| Released: |
August 24, 2009 |
| Collection type: |
Owned (#653) |
| Status: |
Available |
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| Purchase date: |
December 14, 2009 |
| Purchase price: |
Hidden |
| Review (movie): |
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| Review (video): |
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 Overview |
When Max, a young poet (played by the iconic Michael Gothard - The Devils, La Vallée) hires a marketing company to turn his suicide into a mass-media spectacle, he finds that his subversive intentions are quickly diluted into a reactionary gesture, and his motivations are revealed as a desperate attempt to seek attention through celebrity.
Unseen since its limited release in 1967, this audacious and prescient work by experimental filmmaker Don Levy left a profound mark on the landscape of late-1960s British cinema, with echoes of its visual style evident in the most celebrated work of such notable directors as Stanley Kubrick, Nicolas Roeg and Michael Winner. |
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Herostratus (BFI Flipside)
English
