The Year of the Cannibals
Watch TrailerOn 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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📋 Film Details
| 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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