The Cage (1975)
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Creator: A/V Geeks 16mm Films
Description: "The Cage" is a 1975 pantomime film directed by John Barnes, featuring the renowned mime artist Marcel Marceau. This piece showcases Marceau performing one of his legendary pantomime routines, where he uses his expressive body movements and facial expressions to convey a narrative without spoken words. The performance, likely encapsulating themes of confinement and human emotion, highlights Marceau's skill in evoking deep responses from the audience using the minimalist setup typical of pantomime.
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[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] the pantomim we are going to show you now is called the cage and it has been created in 1962 in Paris it seems for you a very long time but what was yesterday can be tomorrow there are numbers where time does not count and the cas is certainly a theme which goes beyond time it will show a man trying to escape invisible walls and going into a small wall trying to find the exit but I will not reveal to you the story because it is like a suspense story within short minutes but there is another way of expressing what I feel about the cage if we are on this Earth to live and to die we have in the frame of the life which is given to us to choose to choose light over Shadow love over hate to bring Beauty to bring a Pacific struggle to men for the enlightenment of humanity there is a solution to every situation we have to go out from the cage for for [Applause] for for e [Music] [Music] for for for e [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]
Online Copy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1xs7srFuXw
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