politics &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:politics @settima@zirk.us Thu, 07 May 2026 12:04:18 +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 Peace, little girl [Daisy / Daisy Girl] (Sidney Myers, 1964) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/peace-little-girl-1964 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Peace, little girl [Daisy / Daisy Girl] (Sidney Myers, 1964)/div div class="month" Nov/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 3/div div class="occasion" 1964/div div class="img" Peace, little girl (1964)/div div class="caption" Monique Corzilius aka Monique Cozy as the Daisy Girl. DP: Drummond Drury./div div class="txt" "One… two… three… four… five… seven… six… six… eight… nine… nine…" ### – Daisy Girl\ /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #November #SidneyMyers #LyndonBJohnson #ChrisSchenkel #MoniqueCorzilius #MoniqueCozy #RobertDryden #DrummondDrury #ShortFilm #war #peace #scaresploitation #flowers #propaganda #ColdWar #election #politics #USA #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Peace, little girl [Daisy / Daisy Girl] (Sidney Myers, 1964)

Nov

3

1964

Peace, little girl (1964)

Monique Corzilius aka Monique Cozy as the Daisy Girl. DP: Drummond Drury.

“One… two… three… four… five… seven… six… six… eight… nine… nine…”

– Daisy Girl

#FilmDuJour #November #SidneyMyers #LyndonBJohnson #ChrisSchenkel #MoniqueCorzilius #MoniqueCozy #RobertDryden #DrummondDrury #ShortFilm #war #peace #scaresploitation #flowers #propaganda #ColdWar #election #politics #USA #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/peace-little-girl-1964 Mon, 03 Nov 2025 09:00:00 +0100 La sixième face du pentagone [The Sixth Face of the Pentagon] (Chris Marker +... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/la-sixieme-face-du-pentagone-1968 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" La sixième face du pentagone [The Sixth Face of the Pentagon] (Chris Marker + François Reichenbach, 1968)/div div class="month" Oct/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 21/div div class="occasion" 1967/div div class="img" La sixième face du pentagone (1968)/div div class="caption" Armed police seen from the back. In front of him someone holds up a sign that reads WHY WAR. DPs: Tony Daval, Chris Marker & Christian Odasso./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #October #ChrisMarker #FrançoisReichenbach #WilliamSloaneCoffin #NPaulStookey #MaryAllinTravers #JohnWilson #PeterYarrow #TonyDaval #ChristianOdasso #documentary #ShortFilm #war #politics #France #1960s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

La sixième face du pentagone [The Sixth Face of the Pentagon] (Chris Marker + François Reichenbach, 1968)

Oct

21

1967

La sixième face du pentagone (1968)

Armed police seen from the back. In front of him someone holds up a sign that reads WHY WAR. DPs: Tony Daval, Chris Marker & Christian Odasso.

#FilmDuJour #October #ChrisMarker #FrançoisReichenbach #WilliamSloaneCoffin #NPaulStookey #MaryAllinTravers #JohnWilson #PeterYarrow #TonyDaval #ChristianOdasso #documentary #ShortFilm #war #politics #France #1960s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/la-sixieme-face-du-pentagone-1968 Tue, 21 Oct 2025 09:00:00 +0200 Calle Santa Fe (Carmen Castillo, 2007) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/calle-santa-fe-2007 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Calle Santa Fe (Carmen Castillo, 2007)/div div class="month" Oct/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 5/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Calle Santa Fe (2007)/div div class="caption" Miguel Enriquez holding Carmen Castillo in a family snapshot. DPs: Ned Burgess, Sebastián Moreno, Raphaël O'Byrne & Arnaldo Rodríguez./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #October #CarmenCastillo #MiguelEnriquez #CarmenCastillo #JuanCarlosZagal #NedBurgess #SebastiánMoreno #RaphaëlOByrne #ArnaldoRodríguez #politics #documentary #Chile #France #Belgium #2000s/div /section ]]>

Calle Santa Fe (Carmen Castillo, 2007)

Oct

5

Calle Santa Fe (2007)

Miguel Enriquez holding Carmen Castillo in a family snapshot. DPs: Ned Burgess, Sebastián Moreno, Raphaël O'Byrne & Arnaldo Rodríguez.

#FilmDuJour #October #CarmenCastillo #MiguelEnriquez #CarmenCastillo #JuanCarlosZagal #NedBurgess #SebastiánMoreno #RaphaëlOByrne #ArnaldoRodríguez #politics #documentary #Chile #France #Belgium #2000s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/calle-santa-fe-2007 Sun, 05 Oct 2025 10:00:00 +0200