Free-associative images are juxtaposed with disorienting poetry in Richter's late work. The film is visual dynamite: Upside-down and reversed footage, play with shadows and light, billiards and dice and balloons-- suggestive and surreal images. Tenets of Dada writing, such as games of chance, punnery, wordplay and loud nonsense noise are foist upon the viewer as Dada poems are read / performed by their orignal authors.
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Cast
11 people
Marcel Duchamp
Self / Voiceover
Known for
Entr'acte
Hans Richter
Known for
Ghosts Before Breakfast
Raoul Hausmann
Voiceover
Also in
Europe After the Rain: Dada and Surrealism
Richard Huelsenbeck
Voiceover
Also in
8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements
Marcel Janco
Voiceover
Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes
Voiceover
Walter Mehring
Voiceover
Man Ray
Voiceover (archive audio)
Known for
Entr'acte
Kurt Schwitters
Voiceover (archive audio)
Also in
Anna Blume
Europe After the Rain: Dada and Surrealism
Tristan Tzara
Voiceover
Wladimir Vogel
Voiceover
Hans Richter Director · Paul Falkenberg Editor
United States release January 1, 1961 · Produced in United States · Languages English, French, German
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United States
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Original language
French
Spoken on screen
English · French · German
Release dates
United States · January 1, 1961
Germany
August 7, 1962 · TV · Source: IMDb
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