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Europe After the Rain

4.2 88 mins Documentary   1978
Arts Council of Great Britain  
Director(s): Mick Gold

Release Date: 01 Sun, Jan 1978

Dada came out of the craziness of World War One. "The birth of Dada was not the beginning of art but of disgust." Surrealism tried to systematize Dada's anarchy into an artistic blend of Freudian psychoanalysis and Marxist provocation. In the interests of conquering the irrational, Salvador Dali opened exhibitions dressed in a diving suit, Marcel Duchamp turned himself into woman, Benjamin Peret assaulted priests, and Yves Tanguy ate spiders. Andre Breton, nicknamed "the Pope of Surrealism", led an inspired gang of artists, lunatics and writers. By the 1950s they were denouncing each other for betraying the movement, but their ideas had infected Hollywood, advertising agencies and were turning up as TV humor and album covers.

Casts of Europe After the Rain

Joan Bakewell

as Self - Presenter

Simon Cadell

as Poetry Reciter

Marcel Duchamp

as Self

Max Ernst

as Self

Nickolas Grace

as Tristan Tzara

Edward Petherbridge

as Poetry Reciter

Dennis Clinton

as Communist Party Representative

Michael N. Harbour

as Andre Breton

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