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Stanley Kubrick
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Director
Stanley Kubrick
Composer
Laurie Johnson
Cast
Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden
Edition 2024
95'
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1964
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War, Comedy
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Dialogue:
Russian, English
Stanley Kubrick's unrivalled, pitch-black Doomsday comedy in which politicians and the military fist-fight in the War Room as we head straight for nuclear catastrophe. Featuring Peter Sellers in three memorable roles.
Shortly after the Cuban missile crisis, Cold War deterrence politics reached a peak, inspiring Stanley Kubrick to make this black comedy about an accidental US nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. Already, Kubrick demonstrates all his unrivaled talent as a conceptual filmmaker. The narrative constantly cuts back and forth between three locations (the War Room in the Pentagon; the military base from which the insane general gave the order to treat the Russians to atomic bombs; the B-52 bomber en route to the communist target) and three Peter Sellers (a weak US president; a stiff upper lip RAF officer; the crippled Dr Strangelove who learns to walk again as the world heads for destruction). Terry Southern wrote the rock-solid script full of absurd dialogue (‘Gentlemen, you can't fight here, this is the War Room!’) that, together with Kubrick's super-powerful direction, makes this 60-year-old film a timeless classic.
Tickets & screenings: from 19 September 2024.
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Credits
Directors
Stanley Kubrick
Composers
Laurie Johnson
Cast
Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden
Scenario
Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, Peter George
Director of Photography
Gilbert Taylor
Editors
Anthony Harvey
Producers
Stanley Kubrick
More info
Dialogue
Russian, English
Countries of production
United States of America, United Kingdom
Screenplay based on
"Red Alert" (Peter George)
Year
1964