Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976) ( Jonas qui aura 25 ans en l'an 2000 ) ( Jonah Who Will Be Twenty Five in the Year Two Thousand )

Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Jonas qui aura 25 ans en l'an 2000
Alternate Title: Jonah Who Will Be Twenty Five in the Year Two Thousand
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Switzerland ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
110 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1976 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Switzerland ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Alain Tanner

Written By:
John Berger
Alain Tanner

Actors:
Jean-Luc Bideau ..... Max
Myriam Boyer ..... Mathilde
Jacques Denis ..... Marco
Roger Jendly ..... Marcel
Dominique Labourier ..... Marguerite
Myriam Mézières ..... Madeleine
Miou-Miou ..... Marie
Rufus ..... Mathieu
Raymond Bussières ..... Old Charles
Pierre Holdener
Maurice Aufair
Jean Schlegel
Gilbert Costa
Christine Wipf
Guillaume Chenevière

Synopsis:

One of the most important films of the disoriented seventies, Jonah..., according to director Alain Tanner, is 'a dramatic tragicomedy in political science fiction.' This rich concoction of color and black and white, songs, skits, economics, dreams, speeches, and sexual experimentation tells the story of eight individuals in Geneva: a copy editor, a secretary, a rural worker and his factory-worker wife, a teacher, and a supermarket cashier-all trying, in different ways, to maintain the ideals of May 1968 and to find alternatives to capitalism. Stranded between revolution and accommodation, their paths briefly cross in search of a common purpose. Tanner and the English Marxist writer John Berger created that rare species: a polemical comedy whose protagonists are warmly and vividly portrayed.

Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (French: Jonas qui aura 25 ans en l'an 2000) is a 1976 Swiss film directed by Alain Tanner and written by Tanner and John Berger. The location of the shooting was Geneva. The film follows the lives of couples in the wake of the social and political tumult of May 1968 in France, the various people including a history professor, a trade unionist and a bohemian.

This Swiss film looks at the lives of several men and women in their 30s as they confront the slim gains of the 'revolutionary' sixties. Max, a dissatisfied copy editor; Myriam, a redhead into tantric sex; and Marie, a supermarket checker who gives unauthorized discounts to the elderly, search for renewed meaning on a communal farm. The title character, a six-year-old child, is the carrier of their hopes for the future.

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