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Weekend
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Title: Weekend

Release Date: 29 Dec 1967

Runtime: 1h 44m

Genre: Comedy, Crime

Director: Cinecidi, Comacico, Les Films Copernic, Lira Films

Production Companies: Cinecidi, Comacico, Les Films Copernic, Lira Films

Overview: A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.

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Average Vote: 7 (280 votes)

Cast

  • Corinne Durand: Mireille Darc
  • Roland Durand: Jean Yanne
  • Le Chef du Front de Libération de la Seine et Oise: Jean-Pierre Kalfon
  • Gros Poucet (uncredited): Yves Afonso
  • Un Membre du FLSO (uncredited): Yves Beneyton
  • Une Activiste du FLSO / Jeune Bourgeoise Accidentée (uncredited): Juliet Berto
  • Girl in the Woods (uncredited): Michèle Breton
  • Man From Farmyard (uncredited): Michel Cournot
  • Revolutionary (uncredited): Lex De Bruijn
  • Mon Frère Africain (uncredited): Omar Diop
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