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The Phantom of Liberty is a film of genre Drama directed by Luis Buñuel released in USA on 26 october 1974 with Julien Bertheau
The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
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Add to a movie listThe Phantom of Liberty (French: Le Fantôme de la liberté) is a 1974 film by Luis Buñuel, produced by Serge Silberman and starring Adriana Asti, Julien Bertheau and Jean-Claude Brialy.
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The opening scene is inspired by "The Kiss", a short story by Spanish post-romanticist writer Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer and by Francisco Goya's painting The Third of May 1808. Toledo, 1808. The city has been occupied by French Napoleonic troops. A firing squad executes a small group of Spanish rebels who cry out "Long live chains!" or "Death to the gabachos!" -a Spanish pejorative term for "Frenchmen"-. The troops are encamped in a Catholic church which they desecrate by drinking, singing, and eating the communion wafers. The captain caresses a statue of Doña Elvira de Castañeda and is knocked unconscious by the statue of her husband, Don Pedro López de Ayala. In revenge, the captain exhumes Doña Elvira's body to find her face has not decomposed; there is a suggestion of intended necrophilia.Actors
Julien Bertheau
(Le premier préfet de police)
Adriana Asti
(La dame en noir, la soeur du premier préfet)
Jean Rochefort
(M. Legendre)
Jean-Claude Brialy
(M. Foucault)
Michel Piccoli
(Le deuxième préfet de police)
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