Main Cast: Zbigniew Cybulski, Zbigniew Cybulski, Sonne Teal, Daniel Emilfork, Laszlo Szabo
Release Year: 1962
Country: IT/FR
Run Time: 96 minutes
Plot
While there is an element of science fiction to this political satire about Latin American dictatorships, that element is primarily used to promote the storyline and the message, and not as a value in itself. In a make-believe Spanish-speaking country of the Americas, a dictator (Zbigniew Cybulski) rules with the usual degree of corruption but as it turns out, his wife is the one who gives most of the orders. Two story strands are then woven together: a scientist has invented a way to replicate objects and, lo and behold, he discovers he can make a robotic duplicate of the dictator's wife. Meanwhile, an ardent, left-leaning revolutionary who happens to be a dead ringer for the dictator ends up taking over the tyrant's role when he is assassinated. So one has a robotic wife and a fake dictator now running a country which is none the wiser. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
Jacques Dufilho - the Indian; Max Montavon - Scientist; Michel de Re - Gervasio; Jean Galland - Gonziano; Claudio Gora - Moren, the Banker; Gabriel Jabbour - Joachim; Roger Karl - Terremoche; Sacha Pitoeff - Sayas
Credit
George Koskas - Art Director, Jacques Baratier - Director, Leonide Azar - Editor, Joseph Kosma - Composer (Music Score), Bernard Parmeggiani - Composer (Music Score), Jorge Mischgberg - Composer (Music Score), Raoul Coutard - Cinematographer, Jacques Baratier - Producer, Jacques Audiberti - Screenwriter
