Of Great Events and Ordinary People (1980)
1h 5m
Running Time
February 24, 1980Release Date
Of Great Events and Ordinary People (1980)
1h 5m
Running Time
February 24, 1980Release Date
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Plot.
In 1978, Ruiz was commissioned to make a television documentary about the French elections from the viewpoint of a Chilean exile in Paris’ eleventh arrondissement. But, contrary to the producers’ expectation, the Left lost. Ruiz seized on this anti-climax to make a documentary about nothing except itself – a film whose central subject is forever lost in digression and ‘dispersal’, harking back to his Chilean experiments of the ‘60s. Its political content is deliberately left negligible: it’s hard to tell at the end who did actually win the election, let alone why.
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Details.
Release DateFebruary 24, 1980
Original NameDe grands événements et des gens ordinaires
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 5m
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Michael McCarthy (27 February 1917 – 7 May 1959) was a British screenwriter and television and film director.He died aged 42, survived by a wife and three children. A Variety obituary said he was "regarded as a director of considerable promise".