Ice
1969 / USA / English / B&W / 132 min / 16mm
Script: Robert Kramer
Photography: Robert Machover
Editing: Robert Machover, Norman Fruchter
Sound: Norman Fruchter
Cast: Paul McIsaac, Robert Kramer, Tom Griffin, and others
Production Company: Monument Film Co, American Film Institute, Newsreel
Source: Cinematrix
In the not-so-far-away future a group of young revolutionaries, militants in the National Committee of Revolutionary Organizations, are preparing to come out of hiding by engaging in guerrilla actions. Meanwhile, in Mexico the Liberation Front is combating the United States. The objective is to link up the white revolutionaries with the blacks, Puerto Ricans, and Mexicans, who are all subject to the same exploitation and violence but divided by their inability to understand each other. The heads of the Committee find that they have to face the uncertainties, doubts, and fears of the militants themselves. The revolutionary offensive breaks out. Subversive newspapers are distributed. An army colonel is killed. A refinery is blown up. Prisons and radio and television stations are assaulted. After the police eliminate the group’s leader, his place is taken by Jim, who gives instructions to one of his comrades from a telephone booth, announcing the next decisive battle.
(Festival Cinema Giovani 1997)
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