Chappaqua (film)
Chappaqua | |
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Swami Satchidananda Ornette Coleman | |
Cinematography | Étienne Becker Robert Frank Eugen Schüfftan |
Edited by | Kenout Peltier |
Music by | Ravi Shankar |
Distributed by | Regional Film Distributors |
Release date |
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Running time | 82 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Chappaqua is a 1967 American drama film, written and directed by
The picture has become a cult film.[2][3]
Plot
American Russel Harwick travels to a villa outside Paris to receive treatment for drug addiction. During withdrawals, he experiences a series of flashbacks to his experiences in New York City and other parts of the world, and has numerous hallucinations.
The film briefly depicts
Cast
- Jean-Louis Barrault as Dr. Benoit
- Conrad Rooks as Russel Harwick
- William S. Burroughs as Opium Jones
- Allen Ginsberg as Messie
- Ravi Shankaras Dieu du Soleil
- Paula Pritchett as Water Woman
- Ornette Coleman as Peyote Eater
- Swami Satchidanandaas The Guru
- Moondog as The Prophet
- Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg, Ken Weaver and three others as The Fugs
- Rita Renoir
- Hervé Villechaize
- Penny Brown as the nurse
Production
The film was shot in England, France, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Sri Lanka and the United States.[1]
Release
The film debuted in competition at the 27th Venice International Film Festival where it won the Special Jury Prize, and was subsequently released by Regional Film Distributors, a newly formed subsidiary of Universal Pictures, in New York City on November 5, 1967.[1] It was re-released in 1970 by Minotaur Releasing.[1]
Sources
- ^ a b c d Chappaqua at the American Film Institute Catalog
- ISBN 978-0-85712-807-2.
- ^ The Beat Generation. p. 106.
External links
- Chappaqua at the American Film Institute Catalog
- Chappaqua at IMDb
- "Conrad Rooks's Chappaqua Is a Therapeutic Travelogue of the Unconscious" New York Times review, November 6, 1967
- Review of Chappaqua at Mondo Digital
- Baumann Graphik (movie poster, German theatrical release 1998)