On Top of the Whale
Het dak van de Walvis
Film · 97 min · Dutch · 1982
Directed by Raúl Ruiz
A parody of anthropology, linguistics, and cultural imperialism. The film follows an unlikely team of linguists into the wilds of an ersatz Patagonia to study the last speakers of a dying language. That language apparently consists of a single word, which therefore means everything.
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- Catalogued entity (metadata)
- Film International Rotterdam
- Country of origin
- Netherlands
- Catalogued
- 2026-10-06
- Registry ID
- MRR-1982-FLM-927111
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