Perfumed Nightmare
Perfumed Nightmare | |
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Mababangong Bangungot | |
Directed by | Kidlat Tahimik |
Written by | Kidlat Tahimik |
Produced by | Kidlat Tahimik |
Starring | Kidlat Tahimik |
Cinematography | Hartmut Lerch Kidlat Tahimik |
Edited by | Kidlat Tahimik |
Music by | Hanns Christian Müller |
Production company | Kidlat Kulog Productions |
Distributed by | Zoetrope Studios[1] (US) |
Release date | 1977 |
Running time | 93 minutes[2] |
Country | Philippines |
Languages | English, Tagalog, French, German |
Mababangong Bangungot or Perfumed Nightmare is a 1977 Filipino film starring, written and directed by Kidlat Tahimik, who also edited, co-shot, and produced it. It tells the story of a young Filipino jeepney driver from Barangay Balian, Laguna infatuated the idea of space travel and the West who gradually becomes disillusioned after living in Paris. The film was well received by critics upon release, even earning the International Film Critic's Prize at the Berlin Film Festival.[3]
Plot[]
Kidlat, a jeepney driver in a village in the Philippines, dreams of becoming an astronaut and making it big in the United States. His dreams take him as far as Europe and to a series of events that will show him that his idealisation of what Western and European culture has to offer is far from real.[4]
Cast[]
- Kidlat Tahimik as Kidlat
References[]
- ^ "American Zoetrope Filmography". zoetrope.com. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
- ^ "Kidlat Tahimik's Perfumed Nightmare". REDCAT. 2015-04-20. Retrieved 2020-01-18.
- ^ "Kidlat Tahimik's "Perfumed Nightmare" Remains an Unlikely Masterpiece | SF360". www.sf360.org. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
- ^ "Essay Film Festival: Perfumed Nightmare (Mababangong Bangungot) |". www.archive.ica.art. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
External links[]
- 1977 films
- 1977 independent films
- American Zoetrope films
- English-language films
- Films directed by Kidlat Tahimik
- Films set in 1976
- Films set in Germany
- Films set in Paris
- Films set in Laguna (province)
- Philippine films
- Philippine film stubs