The Perfumed Nightmare
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Cast & Crew
Kidlat Tahimik
Georgette Baudry
Mang Fely
Harmut Lerch
Katrin Muller
Dolores Santamaria
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Kidlat Tahimik is a young man living in a small Filipino village. He has a fascination with the "Voice of America" broadcasts, and particularly with the space program. He longs to be part of the developed world, and forms the Werner von Braun fan club. When an American arrives for an aborted international conference, he gets his chance. The American asks him to come to Paris, to run his chewing-gum-ball machine concession on the streets. In Paris, he makes friends and discovers that progress in the developed world sacrifices important values. Unable to return to an idealized image of his past, he stubbornly refuses to capitulate to the terms of progress, resigning from his post as head of the Werner von Braun fan club and maintaining that he will find his own way.
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Kidlat Tahimik
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Shown at FILMEX: Los Angeles International Film Exposition (Contemporary Cinema) April 13 - May 7, 1978.
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