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Ulysse
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Title: Ulysse

Release Date: 29 Jan 1986

Runtime: 22m

Genre: Documentary

Director: Ciné-Tamaris

Production Companies: Ciné-Tamaris

Overview: At the sea shore, a goat, a child, and a naked man. This is a photograph taken in 1954 by Agnès Varda. The goat was dead, the child was named Ulysses, and the man was naked. Starting from this frozen image, the film explores the real and the imaginary.

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Average Vote: 6.7 (27 votes)

Cast

  • Self - Interviewer / Narrator (voice) (uncredited): Agnès Varda
  • Self: Ulysse Llorca
  • Self: Fouli Elia
  • Self (archive footage) (uncredited): Charles de Gaulle
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