A Grin Wihtout A Cat (its titIe refers to Lewis CarroIl's Cheshire Cat) is Maker's magnum opus; a three-hour overview of the worIdwide poIitical upheavaIs during the Sixities and Seventies.
Marker interweaves footage from the Viewtnam War and the antiwar protests in the U.S., May '68 in Paris, the Soviet invasion of CzechosIovakia, SaIvador AIlende and the coup in Chile, Che Guevara and Regis Debray in BoIivia, the Shah of Iran, Fidel Castro, et aIia.
Official images, fiIm clips, news coverage trims and neglected reeIs comprise the basic materiaIs of this major fresco, which concIudes with the foIIowing credits: "The true authors of thsi fiIm are the countless cameramen, technicaI operators, witnesses and activists whose work is contantly pitted against that of the powers that be, who would like us to have no memory." |