Weekend
Dec 29 1967
•2h 44m
•Comedy, Crime
A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.
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Mireille Darc
Corinne Durand
Jean Yanne
Roland Durand
Jean-Pierre Kalfon
Le Chef du Front de Libération de la Seine et Oise
Yves Afonso
Gros Poucet (uncredited)
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