Terminal

Apologue on the theme of power and the strong means to conquer it, wrapped in a yellow structure at the service of political cinema of those years, in a futuristic scenario with vaguely Kafkaesque echoes. "At the time I was interested in a type of metaphorical cinema, but on the one hand in which the metaphor was contained within a conventional structure. […] I basically had two archetypes - existing both in literature and in cinema - on whose variation, revisiting I wanted to work: the theme of the double and the theme of Jekyll & Hyde. By mixing the two, I arrived at the story of the film, one entering the life of another…

• Paolo BrecciaDirector

Release date

January 1, 1974

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 50m