A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.
Jean-Luc Godard
Director
Mireille Darc
Corinne Durand
Jean Yanne
Roland Durand
Jean-Pierre Kalfon
Le Chef du Front de Libération de la Seine et Oise
Yves Afonso
Gros Poucet (uncredited)
Yves Beneyton
Un Membre du FLSO (uncredited)
Juliet Berto
Une Activiste du FLSO / Jeune Bourgeoise Accidentée (uncredited)
Michèle Breton
Girl in the Woods (uncredited)
Michel Cournot
Man From Farmyard (uncredited)
Lex De Bruijn
Revolutionary (uncredited)
Omar Diop
Mon Frère Africain (uncredited)
Jean Eustache
L'Auto-Stoppeur (uncredited)
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