A
film of 1970 on the 1968-'69 events, set in the center
of the Sixties, ie at Berkeley.
Directed by Stuart Hagmann, formerly director of advertising (and you
can notice it by the style adopted), and after this film, which is
of great success, but certainly not entirely acceptable to establishment
and then almost disappeared. Starring Bruce Davison (him) and Kim
Darby (her). Bruce Davison has been after a career primarily as an actor
in TV USA.
Simon (he) is
a student disengaged, he is part of a rowing team and he trains hard, while
having the look of a typical intellectual, round glasses as Roger Mc
Guinn and medium-length blond hair. In universities, it begins the
protest of 1968, his room-mate begins to become aware of the moment
before him, which remains an outside observer and skeptical at first
meetings. Then he knows Linda (her), engaged to another man (but is far
away or something like that) and so is the spring for an increasing
commitment, to participate in occupation, take an active role in the
famous long final sequence of the passive resistance against the violent
eviction of the faculty run by the San Francisco police.
As many remember, the students in front of the inevitable supremacy of
well-organized American police, on the advice of their leader (black)
sit in a circle in the gym singing "Give Peace A Chance", the famous
song of John Lennon, and continuing undeterred even when the police take
them one by one.
