A Grin Without a Cat is a 1977 French essay film by Chris Marker. It focuses on global political turmoil in the 1960s and '70s, including the rise of the New Left in France and the development of socialist movements in Latin America. Using the image of Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat, the film's title evokes a dissonance between the promise of a global socialist revolution and its actual nonexistence. The film's original French title is Le fond de l'air est rouge, which means "The essence of the air is red", and has a subtext similar to the English title, implying that the socialist movement existed only in the air.
A Grin Without A Cat (1977)
Directed by Chris Marker
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Movie Info
Box Office
$43,616
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Le, Red
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Subject: , Douglas Bravo, Fidel Castro, Georges Marchais, Larry Bensky, May 1968 protests in France, Salvador Allende
Alternate Titles
A Grin Without a Cat
, CA
Grin Without a Cat
US
Le fond de l'air est rouge
EC, FR
O Fundo do Ar é Vermelho
BR
O tritos pangosmios polemos arhise
GR
Powietrze pachnie czerwienią
PL
Punaista ilmaa
FI
Rot liegt in der Luft: Die zerbrechlichen Hände
DE
To vathos tou ouranou einai kokkino
GR
空気の底は赤い
JP