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Robert Altman, UK 1972, 104’
That Cold Day in the Park 3 Women

In an excellent dissection of insanity, when Cathryn grows hysterical about haunting delusions, her businessman husband seeks a remedy in a mountain cabin from her childhood. There, her condition only deteriorates: surrounded by harassing men, she ceases to distinguish between reality and hallucination.

Rafał Syska

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Cannes IFF 1972 - Best Actress (Susannah York)

Robert Altman

Distinguished director, screenwriter and producer Robert Altman was born in 1925 and died in 2006 having made several dozen cinema and television films. The breakthrough in his career came with the anti-war satire  MASH, in which he presented a community in typical Altman style that characterises his very best work – based on episodic narration and innovative montage of image and sound. Altman often uses irony to show how society’s traditional roles, social conventions and cultural myths condition people.

Selected filmography

1970 MASH

1975 Nashville

1977 Trzy kobiety / 3 Women

1992 Gracz / The Player

1993 Na skróty / Short Cuts

2001 Gosford Park

Cast & Crew

director Robert Altman
screenplay Robert Altman
cinematography Vilmos Zsigmond
editing Graeme Clifford
music John Williams, Stomu Yamash’ta
cast Susannah York, René Auberjonois, Marcel Bozzuffi, Hugh Millais, Cathryn Harrison
producer Tommy Thompson
production Hemdale Film Group, Lion’s Gate Films (Columbia Pictures)
sales Handmade Films
language English
coloration colour
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