Name: Of Great Events and Ordinary People
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1980-02-24T00:00:00.000Z
Duration: 65 min

Question 1

When was Of Great Events and Ordinary People released?

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Of Great Events and Ordinary People was released in 1980.

Question 2

Who directed Of Great Events and Ordinary People?

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Of Great Events and Ordinary People was directed by Raúl Ruiz.

Question 3

What is Of Great Events and Ordinary People about?

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In 1978, Ruiz was commissioned to make a television documentary about the French elections from the viewpoint of a Chilean exile in Paris’ eleventh arrondissement. But, contrary to the producers’ expectation, the Left lost. Ruiz seized on this anti-climax to make a documentary about nothing except itself – a film whose central subject is forever lost in digression and ‘dispersal’, harking back to his Chilean experiments of the ‘60s. Its political content is deliberately left negligible: it’s hard to tell at the end who did actually win the election, let alone why.

Question 4

What genre is Of Great Events and Ordinary People?

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Of Great Events and Ordinary People is a Documentary film.

Question 5

How long is Of Great Events and Ordinary People?

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Of Great Events and Ordinary People has a runtime of 65 minutes.

Question 6

Where was Of Great Events and Ordinary People produced?

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Of Great Events and Ordinary People was produced in France.

Of Great Events and Ordinary People (1980)

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