The Fall (1969)
Film as a Series of Historical Moments Seeking a Synthesis.
"The Fall" depicts certain scenes in New York City between October 1967 and March 1968, shot by the independent filmmaker, Peter Whitehead. It is a very personal documentary, and Whitehead appears in a large number of scenes, and we hear his lengthy ruminations on the state of the United States and the war in Vietnam.
- Date of release
- 1969-01-15
- TMDB
- 7.2 / 10 (5)
- Runtime
- 1h 56m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Peter Whitehead
Casting
- Peter Whitehead — Narrator (voice)
- Alberta Tiburzi — Anna
- Paul Auster
- H. Rap Brown
- Kwame Ture
- Ossie Davis
- Allen Ginsberg — Self
- Tom Hayden
- Angelo Mannsraven
- Arthur C. Miller
- Robert Rauschenberg
- Mark Rudd
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