PUNISHMENT PARK

1971 91 m. USA Peter Watkins

May 68 Events

MAY 68 EVENTS

 

 

Director
Peter Watkins

Screenplay
Peter Watkins

Cinematography
Joan Churchill, Peter Smoker

Producer
Chartwell, Francoise

Cast
Patrick Boland, Kent Foreman, Scott Turner, Luke Johnson, Katherine Quittner

Synopsis
Using the style of documentary filmmaking as a narrative artifice, PUNISHMENT PARK imagines a political landscape in which Nixon’s administration enforces extreme measures to repress subversive demonstrators and pacifists who protest against the Vietnam War. Detained dissidents can choose between prison time or participating in a set of twisted law enforcement exercises.

Format
Blu-ray, color

World Sales-Distribution
Peter Watkins

Filmography
Peter Watkins
UK, 1935

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY:

2005 LA COMMUNE (PARIS, 1871)
1977 EVENING LAND
1969 THE GLADIATORS
1967 PRIVILEGE

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