The Brig
19641h 8mNo ratings yet
- Drama
- War
Overview
Jonas Mekas’s film captures The Living Theatre’s stage production of The Brig, an unflinching portrait of life inside a U.S. Marine Corps jail in Japan in 1957. Over the course of a single day, prisoners endure relentless drills, abuse, and dehumanization, exposing the brutality of military discipline with stark immediacy.
Keywords
- sadism
- jail
- discipline
- military police
- the living theatre
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 20, 1964
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- White Line Productions
- Cast
- Luke Theodore,Henry Proach,James Tiroff,Gene Lipton,Carl Einhorn,Jim Anderson,Mark Duffy,Henry Howard,Steven Ben Israel,Rufus Collinsand 7 more
- Director
- Jonas Mekas
- Writer
- Kenneth H. Brown
- Producer
- David C. Stone
- Cinematography
- Jonas Mekas
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0057899