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Turkish title: Ne Ekersen

“Which side will you be on?”

1968 · 1 h 51 min
Directed by Lindsay Anderson
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Cast

Malcolm McDowell David Wood Richard Warwick

Credits

Written by: David Sherwin

Plot

At a traditional English boarding school, the seniors, called "whips", rule the juniors with cruelty. Mick Travis and his two friends, a group of rebellious boys, play pranks, are punished and dream of revolution, which they finally carry out with real guns during the school's founders' day. Lindsay Anderson's 1968 film, with Malcolm McDowell, mixes black and white with colour and fantasy and won the Palme d'Or at Cannes.

Sinekatalog’s take

Lindsay Anderson's anarchic boarding-school satire grows from stuffy routine to violent rebellion. Malcolm McDowell is star-making, and the film's mix of realism and fantasy shocked and thrilled a generation.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 7.4 / 10 (26,680 votes)
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