Directed by:
Chris MarkerScreenplay:
Chris MarkerPlots(1)
A GRIN WITHOUT A CAT (its title refers to Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat) is Marker's magnum opus: a three-hour overview of the worldwide political upheavals during the Sixties and Seventies.
Marker interweaves footage from the Vietnam War and the antiwar protests in the U.S., May '68 in Paris, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Salvador Allende and the coup in Chile, Che Guevara and Régis Debray in Bolivia, the Shah of Iran, Fidel Castro, et alia.
(official distributor synopsis)
Cast
Simone Signoret
German Empire
Best movies:
The Confession (1970)
The Cat (1971)
The Sleeping Car Murders (1965)
François Périer
France
Best movies:
The Creation of the World (1957)
No Time for Breakfast (1976)
The Organiser (1963)
Yves Montand
Italy
Best movies:
Jean de Florette (1986)
Manon of the Spring (1986)
The Wages of Fear (1953)
Cyril Cusack
South Africa
Best movies:
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
My Left Foot (1989)
Harold and Maude (1971)
Jim Broadbent
UK
Best movies:
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
War and Peace (2016) (series)
Mao Zedong
China
Best movies:
Nixon (1995)
WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971) - a.f.
Mao's Last Dancer (2009)
Salvador Allende
Chile
Best movies:
The Assassination (2004) - a.f.
Nixon (1995)
11'09''01 - September 11 (2002)
Augusto Pinochet
Chile
Best movies:
The Assassination (2004) - a.f.
11'09''01 - September 11 (2002)