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Urinal is a canadien film of genre Drama directed by John Greyson
Urinal (1988)
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Add to a movie listPissoir, retitled Urinal in some countries, was the first feature film directed and released by John Greyson.
Released in 1988, the film's central character is an unnamed man who conjures a circle of dead literary figures, including Sergei Eisenstein, Dorian Gray, Yukio Mishima, Frida Kahlo and Langston Hughes, to help him formulate a response to police crackdowns on homosexual sex venues in Toronto.
The film's cast includes Paul Bettis, Pauline Carey, Lance Eng, and Olivia Rojas.
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