The Year of the Cannibals

The Year of the Cannibals

88 mins | Drama | April 25, 1970

On the streets of a damp metropolis lie the corpses of hundreds and hundreds of boys and girls. No one can give them a resting place because of a law enacted by a repressive State. But the young Antigone, with the help of a foreigner, Tiresias, violates this rule in the name of pietas, undermining the established order.

The Year of the Cannibals

88 mins | Drama | April 25, 1970

The Year of the Cannibals
On the streets of a damp metropolis lie the corpses of hundreds and hundreds of boys and girls. No one can give them a resting place because of a law enacted by a repressive State. But the young Antigone, with the help of a foreigner, Tiresias, violates this rule in the name of pietas, undermining the established order.
IMDb rating 6.3
Producers Doria, San Marco
Original title I cannibali
Directors Liliana Cavani
Writers Italo Moscati, Sophocles, Liliana Cavani

Cast

Britt Ekland

as Antigone

Tomas Milian

as Emone

Pierre Clémenti

as Tiresia

Delia Boccardo

as Ismene

Marino Masé

as Ismene's Fiancé

Francesco Leonetti

as Prime Minister

Alfredo Bianchini

as as Alfrfdo Bianchini

Alessandro Cane

as Commissaire de la Sûreté Nationale

Cora Mazzoni

as Antigone's mother

Francesco Arminio

as Antigone's father