The Society of the Spectacle
May 01 1974
•2h 30m
•Documentary
Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.
Cast
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Leonid Brezhnev
Self (archive footage)
Fidel Castro
Self (archive footage)
Guy Debord
Narrator (voice)
Jacques Duclos
Self (archive footage)
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