Mr. [Mister] Freedom

N.p. N.p., Circa 1968. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph taken on the set of the 1968 film, showing director William Klein talking with Serge Gainsbourg, who appears in a cameo in the film. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso.

A satire of superhero films and American imperialism, following the adventures of the eponymous Mr. Freedom, a beer-swilling white nationalist cop who moonlights as an anticommunist vigilante superhero. Klein's second film, following "Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?" (1966).

7.75 x 10.5 inches. Near Fine.

Criterion Collection. Rosenbaum 1000.

[Book #168093]