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On Top of the Whale
- Original title
- Het Dak Van de Walvis
- Year
- 1982
- Gender
- Fantasy
- Director
- Raoul Ruiz
- Country
- Netherlands
- Details
- 90 minutes / colored / sound
Synopsis
A parody of anthropology, linguistics, and cultural imperialism. The film follows an unlikely team of linguists into the wilds of an ersatz Patagonia to study the last speakers of a dying language. That language apparently consists of a single word, which therefore means everything.
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