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On Top of the Whale (1982)

On Top of the Whale (1982)

Fantasy
Release Date: 1982, February 4
Directors: Raul Ruiz
Countries: Netherlands
Production: Film International Rotterdam
Cast: Willeke van Ammelrooy, Jean Badin, Fernando Bordeu, Amber De Grau

Overview:

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.