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American Spirit: Politics Behind The Myth
Punishment Park
Peter WATKINS
Drama | USA | 1971 | 1h28
Date & Time
Screen
VERSION
20:30 - Sun. 12 Jun 2016
Publicis Cinémas -
VOEN/FR
13:30 - Mon. 13 Jun 2016
Le Balzac -
VOEN/FR
Screening introduced by Frédéric MERCIER from Transfuge magazine.
SYNOPSIS

Peter WATKINS’ study of social turmoil in the United States during the Vietnam era finds the NIXON administration establishing detention camps to curb protests from pacifists, students, black militants, and other "disruptive" elements of society. Invoking powers contained in the 1950 McCarran Act, the government offers convicted offenders the chance to avoid lengthy prison sentences with the option of a three-day stay in a Punishment Park, where prisoners must trek fifty-three miles across the California desert with no food or water while being chased by armed National Guardsmen authorized to shoot them on sight.

CAST

Carmen ARGENZIANO, Katherine QUITTNER, Jim BOHAN, Stan ARMSTED

FILM INFO
Year : 1971
Country : USA
Runtime : 1h28
Language : VOEN/FR
Colour : -