UW Cinematheque - Summer at the Cinematheque 2023
Zardoz | UK, USA | 1974 | DCP | 105 min. Director: John Boorman
Event Details
Date
Thursday, July 6, 2023
Time
7 p.m.
Location
4070 Vilas Hall
Description
Cast: Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling, Sara Kestelman
Connery stars as Zed, slavemaster to a race of primitive “Brutals” in the year 2293. Zed becomes a stowaway on the giant floating stonehead of Zardoz, to whom the Brutals give all of their harvested wheat, and travels into the world of the “Eternals,” a brilliant, but emotionless, super race who decide to use Zed to repopulate their dwindling numbers, as the men are all impotent.
Connery stars as Zed, slavemaster to a race of primitive “Brutals” in the year 2293. Zed becomes a stowaway on the giant floating stonehead of Zardoz, to whom the Brutals give all of their harvested wheat, and travels into the world of the “Eternals,” a brilliant, but emotionless, super race who decide to use Zed to repopulate their dwindling numbers, as the men are all impotent.
Cost
Free
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