Troika


1h 29m 1969

Brief Synopsis

Fredric Hobbs, an unconventional artist, tries to persuade a cynical millionaire Hollywood producer, Gordon Goodloins, to provide financial backing for a projected art film project, Troika . Their continuing encounter provides the frame for the three parts of the film. In the first segment, ...

Film Details

Release Date
Jan 1969
Premiere Information
New York opening: 21 Nov 1969
Production Company
Ica Films
Distribution Company
Emerson Film Enterprises
Country
United States

Technical Specs

Duration
1h 29m

Synopsis

Fredric Hobbs, an unconventional artist, tries to persuade a cynical millionaire Hollywood producer, Gordon Goodloins, to provide financial backing for a projected art film project, Troika . Their continuing encounter provides the frame for the three parts of the film. In the first segment, Chef, a mad sculptor, creates strange plaster forms, smashes them, and throws them into a stove. Part two utilizes documentary footage of campus unrest, contrasting the rigid traditional college setting with the university of the present, and features the sound of machinegun fire as a girls' chorus chants "Let Me Entertain You." The third part centers on a world of variously pigmented young people led by Attenuated Man and invaded by Rax (an Everyman figure)--an 8-foot-high, bug-like, blind robot animated from within by a human being.

Film Details

Release Date
Jan 1969
Premiere Information
New York opening: 21 Nov 1969
Production Company
Ica Films
Distribution Company
Emerson Film Enterprises
Country
United States

Technical Specs

Duration
1h 29m

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