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Punishment Park is a american film of genre Drama directed by Peter Watkins released in USA on 1 october 1971 with Carmen Argenziano
Punishment Park (1971)
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Add to a movie listPunishment Park is a 1971 American mockumentary drama film written and directed by Peter Watkins. It is a pseudo documentary of a British and West German film crew following National Guard soldiers and police as they pursue members of a counterculture group across a desert.
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The movie takes place in 1970. The Vietnam War is escalating and United States President Richard Nixon has just decided on a "secret" bombing campaign in Cambodia. Faced with a growing anti-war movement, President Nixon decrees a state of emergency based on the McCarran Internal Security Act of 1950, which authorises federal authorities, without reference to Congress, to detain persons judged to be a "risk to internal security".Actors
Carmen Argenziano
(Jay Kaufman, Tribunal Defendant)
Peter Watkins
(Documentarist (uncredited))
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Carla Harris Deborah Tranelli is living the American dream. She has a handsome and wealthy husband named Mark Terrence O'Hara. Today is their 5th anniversary but Mark forgets. Even though he has a lot of work he decides to take a break from it. Carla then becomes really happy! Later that night Carla and Mark leave the restaurant. Before they get in the car they spot a male attacking a woman. Mark wants to help but Carla tells him not to. Mark does not listen and goes and fights the attacker. Mark and the male fight but then the male hits him with a stick. When he falls down the male grabs his gun. He points it at Carla and asks her "Don't you wanna know how this thing works?" He tells him no but then he shoots Mark. Even though people saw the attack from their windows they think it's a prank. Carla fights the man but then the police come. The male escapes. At the funeral Carla is the most sad person there. When everyone leaves she stays for 1 hour. 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She tells the doctor that she wants revenge and tell her revenge skills. Later that night Carla escapes from the hospital. She goes to the closed bar and tell the wine man (Who raped her) to poor wine all over his body. She steals his gun then she throws a candle at the wine man leaving him to burn! She says "Burn Bastard!" The next day Carla pretends to be scared. The doctor tells Carla in the big backyard she can take a look around the lake. Then Carla looks around. She thens spots one of her rapists in their speedboat. He looks at her and it's BURKE! Carla takes off her clothes and seduces him to take a dip. She grabs a knife on the boat and stabs him. She then takes a grapple and throws it threw his chest. She ties the other end to his boat. She starts to the boat and making him drown. She says "DROWN BASTARD!" Then she escapes. Police find the body and think that CARLA did it! Fletch makes a group to kill Carla but the sheriff breaks the group up. 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, 2h47Directed by John Frankenheimer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Frederic Forrest, Thomas F. Wilson, Carmen Argenziano, Jayce Bartok, Frederick Coffin, Cliff De Young
Rating74%
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