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Herostratus

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Original title

Herostratus

Year

1967

Running time

143 min.

Country

United Kingdom

Director

Don Levy

Screenwriter

Don Levy

Cast

Music

Halim El-Dabh, John Mayer

Cinematography

Keith Allams

Producer

BFI Experimental Film Fund, BBC

Genre

Drama | Experimental Cinema

Synopsis

A young man wants to commit suicide in public by jumping off a tall building. The title comes from the name of the Ancient Greek man Herostratus, who sought to immortalize his name by setting fire to the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus. Both the director and the lead actor would, later, commit suicide.

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Herostratus

1967

Don Levy

6.9

(37)