politics &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:politics @settima@mograph.social Sat, 20 Jun 2026 10:23:38 +0200 Sochaux, 11 juin 1968 [Sochaux June 11th 1968] (Bruno Muel, 1970) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-qy2d <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Sochaux, 11 juin 1968 [Sochaux June 11th 1968] (Bruno Muel, 1970)/div div class="month" Jun/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 11/div div class="occasion" 1968/div div class="img" Sochaux, 11 juin 1968 (1970)/div div class="caption" Several of the striking workers in a row. The composition echoes the famous propaganda image of Marx, Engels, Lenin etc. DP: Groupe Medvedkine de Sochaux./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #June #BrunoMuel #GroupeMedvedkineDeSochaux #ShortFilm #politics #WorkersRights #Sochaux #France #1970s/div /section ]]>

Sochaux, 11 juin 1968 [Sochaux June 11th 1968] (Bruno Muel, 1970)

Jun

11

1968

Sochaux, 11 juin 1968 (1970)

Several of the striking workers in a row. The composition echoes the famous propaganda image of Marx, Engels, Lenin etc. DP: Groupe Medvedkine de Sochaux.

#FilmDuJour #June #BrunoMuel #GroupeMedvedkineDeSochaux #ShortFilm #politics #WorkersRights #Sochaux #France #1970s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-qy2d Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (Robert Drew, 1963) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-dq6n <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (Robert Drew, 1963)/div div class="month" Jun/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 10/div div class="occasion" 1963/div div class="img" Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963)/div div class="caption" An energetic Bobby arrives at the White House in his limousine. DP: Gregory Shuker./div div class="txt" "This nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free." ### – JFK /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #June #RobertDrew #DAPennebaker #JohnFKennedy #RobertFKennedy #JFK #VivianMalone #JamesHood #GeorgeWallace #GregoryShuker #racism #politics #CinémaDirect #documentary #USA #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (Robert Drew, 1963)

Jun

10

1963

Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963)

An energetic Bobby arrives at the White House in his limousine. DP: Gregory Shuker.

“This nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.”

– JFK

#FilmDuJour #June #RobertDrew #DAPennebaker #JohnFKennedy #RobertFKennedy #JFK #VivianMalone #JamesHood #GeorgeWallace #GregoryShuker #racism #politics #CinémaDirect #documentary #USA #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-dq6n Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Grands soirs & petits matins [May Days] (William Klein, 1978) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-3j7b <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Grands soirs & petits matins [May Days] (William Klein, 1978)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 24/div div class="occasion" 1968/div div class="img" Grands soirs & petits matins (1978)/div div class="caption" Sorbonne students discussing the political situation with an elderly Parisian man. DPs: William Klein & Bernard Lutic./div div class="txt" "Soyez réalistes, demandez l'impossible" ### – May 68 slogan /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #WilliamKlein #BernardLutic #documentary #photography #CinémaDirect #Situationisme #history #politics #Mai68 #Paris #France #1970s ★★★★½/div /section ]]>

Grands soirs & petits matins [May Days] (William Klein, 1978)

May

24

1968

Grands soirs & petits matins (1978)

Sorbonne students discussing the political situation with an elderly Parisian man. DPs: William Klein & Bernard Lutic.

“Soyez réalistes, demandez l'impossible”

– May 68 slogan

#FilmDuJour #May #WilliamKlein #BernardLutic #documentary #photography #CinémaDirect #Situationisme #history #politics #Mai68 #Paris #France #1970s ★★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-3j7b Sun, 24 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Bom Povo Português [The Good People of Portugal] (Rui Simões, 1980) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-v4kg <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Bom Povo Português [The Good People of Portugal] (Rui Simões, 1980)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 25/div div class="occasion" 1974/div div class="img" Bom Povo Português (1980)/div div class="caption" A young soldier triumphantly holds up his riffle. DPs: Manuel Barros, Mário Cabrita Gil, José Luís Carvalhosa, Gérard Collet, Acácio de Almeida, Russell Parker & José Reynès./div div class="txt" Takes places between April 25th, 1974 and November 25th, 1975, during the Revolução dos Cravos. /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #April #RuiSimões #JoséMárioBranco #JoséPedroCaiado #EduardoPaisMamede #LuísMartinsSaraiva #ManuelBarros #MárioCabritaGil #JoséLuísCarvalhosa #GérardCollet #AcácioDeAlmeida #RussellParker #JoséReynès #coup #revolution #politics #documentary #Portugal #1980s/div /section ]]>

Bom Povo Português [The Good People of Portugal] (Rui Simões, 1980)

Apr

25

1974

Bom Povo Português (1980)

A young soldier triumphantly holds up his riffle. DPs: Manuel Barros, Mário Cabrita Gil, José Luís Carvalhosa, Gérard Collet, Acácio de Almeida, Russell Parker & José Reynès.

Takes places between April 25th, 1974 and November 25th, 1975, during the Revolução dos Cravos.

#FilmDuJour #April #RuiSimões #JoséMárioBranco #JoséPedroCaiado #EduardoPaisMamede #LuísMartinsSaraiva #ManuelBarros #MárioCabritaGil #JoséLuísCarvalhosa #GérardCollet #AcácioDeAlmeida #RussellParker #JoséReynès #coup #revolution #politics #documentary #Portugal #1980s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-v4kg Sat, 25 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0200 April 2000 [April 1, 2000] (Wolfgang Liebeneiner, 1952) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-w3gj <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 1. April 2000 [April 1, 2000] (Wolfgang Liebeneiner, 1952)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 1/div div class="occasion" 2000/div div class="img" 1. April 2000 (1952)/div div class="caption" The President of the Global Union (Hilde Krahl) stepping out of her spaceship. DPs: Sepp Ketterer, Karl Löb & Fritz Arno Wagner./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #April #WolfgangLiebeneiner #HildeKrahl #JosefMeinrad #JosefFiedler #AloisMelichar #RobertStolz #SeppKetterer #KarlLöb #FritzArnoWagner #SciFi #comedy #satire #politics #Austria #1950s /div /section ]]>

1. April 2000 [April 1, 2000] (Wolfgang Liebeneiner, 1952)

Apr

1

2000

1. April 2000 (1952)

The President of the Global Union (Hilde Krahl) stepping out of her spaceship. DPs: Sepp Ketterer, Karl Löb & Fritz Arno Wagner.

#FilmDuJour #April #WolfgangLiebeneiner #HildeKrahl #JosefMeinrad #JosefFiedler #AloisMelichar #RobertStolz #SeppKetterer #KarlLöb #FritzArnoWagner #SciFi #comedy #satire #politics #Austria #1950s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-w3gj Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Waiting for Fidel (Michael Rubbo, 1974) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-xrrj <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Waiting for Fidel (Michael Rubbo, 1974)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 8/div div class="occasion" International Women's Day/div div class="img" Waiting for Fidel (1974)/div div class="caption" A group of six girls and two boys sing in celebration of International Women's Day. DP: Douglas Kiefer./div div class="txt" Time flies while waiting for Fidel, and before you know it, it's March 8. &nbsp; &nbsp; Film du Jour posts does not list holidays on their respective date, unless a film or scene happens to take place on one./div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #March #MichaelRubbo #FidelCastro #ErichHonecker #BernabeOrdez #JoeySmallwood #GeoffStirling #DouglasKiefer #InternationalWomensDay #politics #documentary #Canada #1970s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Waiting for Fidel (Michael Rubbo, 1974)

Mar

8

International Women's Day

Waiting for Fidel (1974)

A group of six girls and two boys sing in celebration of International Women's Day. DP: Douglas Kiefer.

Time flies while waiting for Fidel, and before you know it, it's March 8.

 

 

Film du Jour posts does not list holidays on their respective date, unless a film or scene happens to take place on one.

#FilmDuJour #March #MichaelRubbo #FidelCastro #ErichHonecker #BernabeOrdez #JoeySmallwood #GeoffStirling #DouglasKiefer #InternationalWomensDay #politics #documentary #Canada #1970s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-xrrj Sun, 08 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0100 N.P. il segreto [N.P.] (Silvano Agosti, 1971) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-ynym <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" N.P. il segreto [N.P.] (Silvano Agosti, 1971)/div div class="month" Jan/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 3/div div class="occasion" 1979/div div class="img" N.P. il segreto (1971).png)/div div class="caption" The January 3–4 International Herald Tribune reports on The Gunboat Affair. DP: Dimitri Nicolau./div div class="txt" And April 27. &nbsp; /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #January #SilvanoAgosti #FranciscoRabal #IrenePapas #EdyBiagetti #TakisEmmanuel #IngridThulin #NicolaPiovani #DimitriNicolau #drama #SciFi #politics #dystopia #Italy #1970s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

N.P. il segreto [N.P.] (Silvano Agosti, 1971)

Jan

3

1979

N.P. il segreto (1971)

The January 3–4 International Herald Tribune reports on The Gunboat Affair. DP: Dimitri Nicolau.

And April 27.

 

#FilmDuJour #January #SilvanoAgosti #FranciscoRabal #IrenePapas #EdyBiagetti #TakisEmmanuel #IngridThulin #NicolaPiovani #DimitriNicolau #drama #SciFi #politics #dystopia #Italy #1970s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-ynym Sat, 03 Jan 2026 10:00:00 +0100 Report (Bruce Conner, 1967) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/report-1967 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Report (Bruce Conner, 1967)/div div class="month" Nov/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 23/div div class="occasion" 1963/div div class="img" Report (1967)/div div class="caption" Television footage of JFK's state funeral with the caption "November 23, 1963", superimposed over it./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #November #BruceConner #JohnFKennedy #JFK #JacquelineKennedyOnassis #LeeHarveyOswald #ShortFilm #ExperimentalFilm #crime #politics #USA #1960s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Report (Bruce Conner, 1967)

Nov

23

1963

Report (1967)

Television footage of JFK's state funeral with the caption “November 23, 1963”, superimposed over it.

#FilmDuJour #November #BruceConner #JohnFKennedy #JFK #JacquelineKennedyOnassis #LeeHarveyOswald #ShortFilm #ExperimentalFilm #crime #politics #USA #1960s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/report-1967 Sun, 23 Nov 2025 09:00:00 +0100 A Face in the Crowd (Elia Kazan, 1957) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-w2h7 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" A Face in the Crowd (Elia Kazan, 1957)/div div class="month" Nov/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 21/div div class="occasion" 1956/div div class="img" A Face in the Crowd (1957)/div div class="caption" Variety blares L. R.'S BLOOPER TOPS UNK DON'S. It's Wednesday, November 21, 1956. DPs: Gayne Rescher & Harry Stradling Sr../div div class="txt" "I'm not just an entertainer. I'm an influence, a wielder of opinion, a force… a force!" ### – Lonesome Rhodes /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #November #EliaKazan #AndyGriffith #PatriciaNeal #AnthonyFranciosa #WalterMatthau #LeeRemick #TomGlazer #GayneRescher #HarryStradlingSr #drama #politics #USA #1950s ★★★★½ ♥︎/div /section ]]>

A Face in the Crowd (Elia Kazan, 1957)

Nov

21

1956

A Face in the Crowd (1957)

Variety blares L. R.'S BLOOPER TOPS UNK DON'S. It's Wednesday, November 21, 1956. DPs: Gayne Rescher & Harry Stradling Sr..

“I'm not just an entertainer. I'm an influence, a wielder of opinion, a force… a force!”

– Lonesome Rhodes

#FilmDuJour #November #EliaKazan #AndyGriffith #PatriciaNeal #AnthonyFranciosa #WalterMatthau #LeeRemick #TomGlazer #GayneRescher #HarryStradlingSr #drama #politics #USA #1950s ★★★★½ ♥︎

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-w2h7 Fri, 21 Nov 2025 10:00:00 +0100 Roma dodici novembre 1994 [Rome, November 12, 1994] (Alfredo Angeli et al.,... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-q3ll <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Roma dodici novembre 1994 [Rome, November 12, 1994] (Alfredo Angeli et al., 1995)/div div class="month" Nov/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 12/div div class="occasion" 1994/div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #November #AlfredoAngeli #GiorgioArlorio #MarcoBellocchio #GioiaBenelli #FrancoBrogiTaviani #AlessandroCane #FabioCarpi #SandroCecca#RoccoCesareo #MicheleConforti #CarloDiCarlo #AntonioFalduto #MarcoFerreri #GiulianaGamba #LucioGaudino #RobertoGiannarelli #LilianaGinanneschi #FrancoGiraldi #VeronicaBilbaoLaVieja #WilmaLabate #FrancescoLaudadio #CarloLizzani #FrancescoLongo #NanniLoy #LuigiMagni #SalvatoreMaira #MassimoManuelli #FrancescoMaselli #GianfrancoMingozzi #GiulianoMontaldo #LuigiPerelli #PaoloPietrangeli #RosaliaPolizzi #GilloPontecorvo #MaurizioPonzi #MarcoRisi #EttoreScola #DanieleSegre #GianniSerra #RickyTognazzi #VitoZagarrio #GianlorenzoBattaglia #RobertoBenvenuti #GiuseppeBernardini #AngeloBevilacqua #RobertoBrega #FrancoBruni #NiniCeleste #CarloCerchio #StefanoColetta #AlessandroDEva #FrancoDiGiacomo #SilvioFraschetti #AlessandroGrossi #MassimoIntoppa #GiuseppeLanci #SergioSalvati #GianfrancoTransunto #AdolfoTroiani #EnnioMorricone #politics #activism #ShortFilm #Rome #Italy #1990s/div /section ]]>

Roma dodici novembre 1994 [Rome, November 12, 1994] (Alfredo Angeli et al., 1995)

Nov

12

1994

#FilmDuJour #November #AlfredoAngeli #GiorgioArlorio #MarcoBellocchio #GioiaBenelli #FrancoBrogiTaviani #AlessandroCane #FabioCarpi #SandroCecca#RoccoCesareo #MicheleConforti #CarloDiCarlo #AntonioFalduto #MarcoFerreri #GiulianaGamba #LucioGaudino #RobertoGiannarelli #LilianaGinanneschi #FrancoGiraldi #VeronicaBilbaoLaVieja #WilmaLabate #FrancescoLaudadio #CarloLizzani #FrancescoLongo #NanniLoy #LuigiMagni #SalvatoreMaira #MassimoManuelli #FrancescoMaselli #GianfrancoMingozzi #GiulianoMontaldo #LuigiPerelli #PaoloPietrangeli #RosaliaPolizzi #GilloPontecorvo #MaurizioPonzi #MarcoRisi #EttoreScola #DanieleSegre #GianniSerra #RickyTognazzi #VitoZagarrio #GianlorenzoBattaglia #RobertoBenvenuti #GiuseppeBernardini #AngeloBevilacqua #RobertoBrega #FrancoBruni #NiniCeleste #CarloCerchio #StefanoColetta #AlessandroDEva #FrancoDiGiacomo #SilvioFraschetti #AlessandroGrossi #MassimoIntoppa #GiuseppeLanci #SergioSalvati #GianfrancoTransunto #AdolfoTroiani #EnnioMorricone #politics #activism #ShortFilm #Rome #Italy #1990s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-q3ll Wed, 12 Nov 2025 10:00:00 +0100