A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern Paris.A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern Paris.A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern Paris.
- Rayon de Lune
- (as Franca Bettoja)
- Tom
- (as Franco Fabrizzi)
- Un homme du pouvoir
- (as Vedres et Boutang)
- Un homme du pouvoir
- (as Vedres et Boutang)
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The Mad Indian: It's your fauly, Sitting Bull. You sign peace treaties, and they wipe their asses with ourtreaties. They wipe their asses with them!
Sitting Bull: This is the soldier's fury. The wise President Nixon ignores all this, I hope.
The Mad Indian: They devastated our fields. Yes, our fields! They cut down our forests. Yes, our forests! They exterminated our game. Yes, our game! They poison us every day with their alcohol and their flour full of strychnine. But don't listen to me. I'm a madman! We are condemned to die on reservations. They slaughter us as soon as they have a chance, but their President doesn't know anything about it. But don't listen to me. I'm a madman. The President doesn't know anything about it.
- ConnectionsEdited into Marcello, una vita dolce (2006)
- SoundtracksGary Owen
(uncredited)
Played by military band and as motif throughout film
The director deals with a page of shame of American history as George Custer prepared, and later battled, the Indians in the battle of Little Big Horn that was his last stand as a military man. Where Marco Ferreri succeeds is in mixing the plot of the film with every day life of Paris in which most people didn't even bat an eye watching the invading Americans.
Mr. Ferreri was lucky in getting some familiar faces to play in his film. Thus, Marcello Mastroianni is seen as General Custer. Catherine Deneuve played the object of the general's affections. Ugo Tognazzi is great as Mitch. Michel Piccoli is bigger than life in his take of Buffalo Bill. Philippe Noiret, another excellent actor, plays Gen. Terry, and Serge Reggiani is seen as the mad Indian who runs in and out of most scenes wearing a loin cloth to cover a little bit of his nakedness.
The idea of staging this film in a construction site works well with the action in the movie thanks to a revolutionary idea by Marco Ferreri.
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- Ne dirajte bijelu zenu
- Filming locations
- Fontaine des Innocents, Paris, France(Custer and Marie-Hélène walk near and the ballad sung by a soldier is first heard)
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- Runtime1 hour 48 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1