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This film version is set in urban America and is a deliberately subversive, surreal experience with strong comic performances. It is not, however, as multi-layered as the original play (which was set in France and had strong political and historical connotations about the Nazi occupation).
Preposterous movie based on a play. Neurotic Gene Wilder retreats to his apartment when he thinks his neighbors and friends are turning into rhinos. They act like rhinos but still keep human...
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- Danielle Solzman
- PG
- Tom O'horgan
Rhinoceros is a 1974 American comedy film based on the play Rhinocéros by Eugène Ionesco. The film was produced by Ely Landau for the American Film Theatre, which presented thirteen film adaptations of plays in the United States from 1973 to 1975.
Jan 21, 1974 · Rhinoceros: Directed by Tom O'Horgan. With Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Karen Black, Joe Silver. A boozing young man in love with his co-worker finds that everyone around him, even his pompous and condescending best friend, is changing into a rhinoceros.
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- Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
- Tom O'Horgan
- 1974-01-21
Apr 2, 2022 · In Ionesco’s 1950 absurdist dark comedy, Rhinocéros, set in a small French town, the titular pachyderms start showing up and stampeding about, first one then another, eventually becoming a thundering herd. The townsfolk are terrified yet fascinated, and one by one they succumb to group-think and turn into rhinos themselves.
- John Stoltenberg
Sep 14, 2017 · Suddenly there’s an upsurge of keratin and before you know it, a crash of rhinoceroses. The play, originally written in French, is performed in Yiddish, in a new translation by Eli Rosen, who ...
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Rhinoceros is a nightmare comedy about a society that chooses to follow the herd and become rhinoceroses. The original play by Eugene Ionesco is a thinly-veiled attack on Romanian and French extremist politics in the wake of their nationalist conformity during World War II.
