The Society of the Spectacle

Nan
1h 30m
1974
6.7 /10 (24)

Overview

Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.

Country : France
Languages : Deutsch, Français, English
Released Date: 1974-05-01

Top Billed Cast

Leonid Brezhnev

Self (archive footage)

Fidel Castro

Self (archive footage)

Guy Debord

Narrator (voice)

Jacques Duclos

Self (archive footage)

Robert Fabre

Self (archive footage)

Nino Ferrer

Self (archive footage)

Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

Self (archive footage)

Johnny Hallyday

Self (archive footage)

George Harrison

Self (archive footage)

Henry Kissinger

Self (archive footage)

Alexei Kosygin

Self (archive footage)

Mao Zedong

Self (archive footage)

Georges Marchais

Self (archive footage)

Paul McCartney

Self (archive footage)

Eddy Mitchell

Self (archive footage)

François Mitterrand

Self (archive footage)

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