On Top of the Whale (1982)
1h 37m
Running Time
February 4, 1982Release Date
On Top of the Whale (1982)
1h 37m
Running Time
February 4, 1982Release Date
Plot.
A parody of anthropology, linguistics, and cultural imperialism. The film follows an unlikely team of linguists into the wilds of an ersatz Patagonia to study the last speakers of a dying language. That language apparently consists of a single word, which therefore means everything.
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Release DateFebruary 4, 1982
Original NameHet dak van de Walvis
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 37m
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On Top of the Whale (Dutch: Het dak van de walvis) is a 1982 Dutch surrealist/magical realistic fantasy film directed by Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz while he was in exile and "...is one of his most delirious and ambitious hoax-like fictions".
The film employs the use of six different languages, including an invented one. The story follows a Dutch anthropologist and his wife and child who are invited to the house of a communist millionaire in Patagonia (an area located in Chile and Argentina) to study the last two surviving Yachanes Indians.
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