The Balcony
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"Strick and Maddow have provided this fantastic film with its own reality." -- Variety
"Performances in the film are excellent. Lee Grant is wonderful as the assistant to the Madame; Peter Falk gives us a powerhouse of a Chief of Police, played with oil, smarm, and charisma." -- dvdtimes.co.uk
An incredible all-star cast, including Peter Falk, Shelley Winters, Lee Grant and Leonard Nimoy, brings Jean Genet's stirring absurdist drama vividly to life.
A bizarre psycho-erotic brothel sells illusions of power to an impotent clientele, while just outside its doors, the city rages with riots and revolution. When most of the civic officials are killed by the insurgents, the brothel's customers assume the roles of power that before had only been dreams.
A bizarre psycho-
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The Balcony (French: Le Balcon) is a play by the French dramatist Jean Genet. Since Peter Zadek directed its first production at the Arts Theatre Club in London in 1957, the play has attracted many of the greatest directors of the 20th century, including Peter Brook, Erwin Piscator, Roger Blin, Giorgio Strehler, and JoAnne Akalaitis. Set in an unnamed city that is experiencing a revolutionary uprising in the streets, most of the action takes place in an upmarket brothel that functions as a microcosm of the regime of the establishment under threat outside. The play's dramatic structure integrates Genet's concern...
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