Herostratus (1967) ( Hero stratus )

Herostratus (1967) (Blu-Ray) (*)

$35.99

Original Title: Hero stratus
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Dolby Linear PCM )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
143 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Short Film
Booklet
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1967 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Don Levy

Written By:
Don Levy

Actors:
Mona Chin ..... Sandy
Michael Gothard ..... Max
Gabriella Licudi ..... Clio
Hilda Marvin ..... Pointer
Helen Mirren ..... Farson
Malcolm Muggeridge
Vivienne Myles
Antony Paul
Peter Stephens
Brigitte St. John

Synopsis:

When Max, a young poet (played by the iconic Michael Gothard) hires a marketing company to turn his suicide-by-jumping into a mass-media spectacle, he finds that his subversive intentions are quickly diluted into a reactionary gesture, and his motivations are revealed as a desperate attempt to seek attention through celebrity. Unseen since its limited release in 1967, this audacious and prescient - yet criminally overlooked - work by experimental filmmaker Don Levy left a profound mark on the landscape of late-1960s British cinema, with echoes of its visual style evident in the more celebrated work of such notable directors as Stanley Kubrick, Nicolas Roeg and Michael Winner.

Inspired by, and named after, the legend of the man who reputedly burned down the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus to achieve immortal fame, Herostratus is the story of Max, a young poet who proposes to a marketing firm that they turn into a mass media spectacle his suicide by jumping off a tall building, a final performance that he conceives as a sacrificial act of protest against modern society. Much to his dismay, however, his supposedly subversive intentions are quickly hi-jacked and diluted into a reactionary gesture and his motivations are cruelly revealed to him as a desperate attempt to seek attention through celebrity.

A young man wants to commit suicide publicly and in the presence of as many people as possible so persuades a public relations firm to exploit the event. Later, he changes his mind but finds that by this time he is no longer in control of the situation.

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