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The Year of the Cannibals

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1969 · 88 min Drama
5.3 / 10 · TMDB

On the streets of a damp metropolis lie the corpses of hundreds and hundreds of boys and girls. No one can give them a resting place because of a law enacted by a repressive State. But the young Antigone, with the help of a foreigner, Tiresias, violates this rule in the name of pietas, undermining the established order.

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Original Title I cannibali
Year 1969
Country Italy
Genre Drama
Director Liliana Cavani
Runtime 88 min.
Rating TMDB: 5.3/10 (25 votes)

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The film constructs its political allegory by transposing the ancient myth into a stark, modern dystopia. It relies on a chilling, minimalist aesthetic to explore the conflict between individual conscience and oppressive state machinery.

What lingers after viewing is a profound unease about the mechanisms of power and the quiet, devastating cost of apathy in the face of inhumanity. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Liliana Cavani

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Watch attentively in the evening, prepared for a bleak and intellectually demanding parable.

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