Privilege (film)

• Paul Jones: Steven Shorter
• Jean Shrimpton: Vanessa Ritchie
• Mark London: Alvin Kirsch
• William job: Andrew Butler
• Max Bacon: Julie Jordan
• Jeremy Child: Martin Crossley
• James Cossins Professor Tatham
• Frederick Danner: Marcus Hooper
• Victor Henry: Freddie K
• Arthur Pentelow: Leo Stanley
• Steve Kirby: Squit
• Doreen Mantle: Miss Crawford
• Michael Graham: Timothy Arbutt
• Michael Barrington: Bishop of Essex

Privilege (Original Title: Privilege ) is a British film director Peter Watkins 's 1967 As Watkins ' other work also makes use of privilege of a quasi- documentary narrative style..

Action

The film is set in the near future in the 1970s and is about the rock star Steven Shorter. Church and state try to win Steven for their own purposes and to manipulate such an extent that it becomes a messianic leader figure for the youth to dissuade these rebellious from their course and to konformisieren.

Background

In the role of Steven of the then very popular Paul Jones, the longtime lead singer of Manfred Mann Group is to see. Stevens friend, the painter Vanessa Ritchie, is embodied by the former model Jean Shrimpton.

Privilege launched on 28 February 1967 in British cinemas. The German version was shown from 13 October 1967 in the western German and from March 28, 1969 in the East German cinemas. In June 1974, the film was shown for the first time on East German television.

Reviews

" Formally and thematically interesting media satire, but loses clichéd exaggeration and hasty denunciation of persuasion. "

"English film portrays intelligent and formally perfect the brief but hectic career as a pop singer and the related phenomena of collective hysteria. Part of the critical attitude extends in, in a near future ' gambling action on the Christian churches of England. "

DVD Release

After many years of unexplained legal privilege was finally published in 2008 in the U.S. and 2010 in the UK on DVD and Blu- ray Disc