Directed by:
Johan GrimonprezComposer:
Christian HaltenCast:
Leonid Brezhnev, Jimmy Carter, George Bush, George W. Bush, Fidel Castro, Bill Clinton, Walter Cronkite, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, Jacqueline Kennedy (more)Plots(1)
Johan Grimonprez's ingenious documentary/fiction hybrid a meditation on identity, filmmaking, power and paranoia looks at Alfred Hitchcock's late 50s and early 60s films against the climate of Cold War-era political anxiety. Using a meticulous array of archive footage as well as a story by novelist Tom McCarthy (Remainder) about Hitchcock encountering his double during production of 'The Birds', Grimonprez traces the global rise of fear as a commodity, examining modern history through the lens of mass media, advertising and Hollywood. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Leonid Brezhnev
Russian Empire
Best movies:
JFK (1991)
Underground (1995)
Executive Action (1973)
Jimmy Carter
USA
George Bush
USA
Best movies:
Welcome to Sarajevo (1997) - a.f.
Snowden (2016) - a.f.
The Special Relationship (2010) (TV movie) - a.f.
George W. Bush
USA
Best movies:
Curveball (2020) - a.f.
Die Hard 4.0 (2007) - a.f.
The Big Short (2015) - a.f.
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Best movies:
Papa Hemingway in Cuba (2015) - a.f.
The Eichmann Show (2015) (TV movie) - a.f.
Bill Clinton
USA
Best movies:
Contact (1997) - a.f.
Richard Jewell (2019) - a.f.
Welcome to Sarajevo (1997) - a.f.
Walter Cronkite
USA
Best movies:
Apollo 13 (1995)
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020) - a.f.
The Butler (2013) - a.f.
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Faraway, So Close! (1993)
Jacqueline Kennedy
USA
Best movies:
JFK (1991)
The Irishman (2019) - a.f.
Executive Action (1973)
John F. Kennedy
USA
Best movies:
Forrest Gump (1994)
Trumbo (2015) - a.f.
Hidden Figures (2016) - a.f.
Nikita Khrushchev
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Velikij polkovoděc Georgij Žukov (1995) - a.f.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015) - a.f.
Janet Leigh
USA
Best movies:
Psycho (1960)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Little Women (1949)
Richard Nixon
USA
Best movies:
American Gangster (2007) - a.f.
The Doors (1991) - a.f.
All the President's Men (1976) - a.f.
Vladimir Putin
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Snowden (2016) - a.f.
Brexit: The Uncivil War (2019) (TV movie) - a.f.
Angel Has Fallen (2019) - a.f.
Ronald Reagan
USA
Best movies:
'Weird Al' Yankovic: The Videos (1996) (video compilation)
Storm Warning (1951)
Trumbo (2015) - a.f.
Diana Ross
USA
Best movies:
Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee (2022) (concert)
The Wiz (1978)
John Vernon
Canada
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
The Sacketts (1979) (TV movie)
A Special Day (1977)
Boris Yeltsin
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Enya: The Video Collection (2001) (music video) - a.f.
The Balkan Line (2019) - a.f.
The Jackal (1997)
Yuri Gagarin
Soviet Union
Best movies:
The Right Stuff (1983)
Gagarin: First in Space (2013) - a.f.
Lyndon B. Johnson
USA
Best movies:
Forrest Gump (1994)
JFK (1991)
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020) - a.f.