Zardoz (Original title)
Date: 1973 (Copyright)Countries: USA, IrelandDirected by: John Boorman
Synopsis: Set in 2293, with Zed, an exterminator discovering that the god Zardoz is in fact a mechanical device used by an elite to subjugate the Earth.
Genre: Science Fiction
Subjects: Ethnology, Societies of the future, Religion
Date: 1973 (Copyright)Countries: USA, IrelandDirected by: John Boorman
Synopsis: Set in 2293, with Zed, an exterminator discovering that the god Zardoz is in fact a mechanical device used by an elite to subjugate the Earth.
Genre: Science Fiction
Subjects: Ethnology, Societies of the future, Religion
Credits
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©: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, Production Company: John Boorman Productions, Produced by: John Boorman, Associate Producer: Charles Orme, Production Manager: Seamus Byrne, Assistant Director (2nd): Redmond Morris, Assistant Director: Simon Relph, Continuity: Jean Skinner, Casting: Miriam Brickman, [Casting (Dublin)]: Ron Geraghty, Written by: John Boorman, Design and Story Associate: Bill Stair, Photographed by: Geoffrey Unsworth, Camera Operator: Peter MacDonald, Assistant Cameraman: John Campbell, Electrical Supervisor: Jack Conroy, Grip.: Paddy Keogh, Special Effects: Gerry Johnson, Process Projection Effects: Charles Staffell, Special Projection Material: Robin Hughes, Inflatables by: Air Structures Design London, Editor: John Merritt, Electrical Supervisor: Alan Jones, Production Designer: Anthony Pratt, Assistant Designer: Reginald Bream, Assistant Art Director: Martin Atkinson, Set Decorator: John Hoesli, Construction Manager: Peter McGoldrick, Costumes by: Christel Kruse Boorman, Wardrobe Master: Jack Gallagher, Make-up: Basil Newall, Hair Stylist: Colin Jamison, Music by: David Munrow, Sound Mixer: Liam Saurin, Dubbing Mixer: Doug Turner, Sound Editor: Jim Atkinson, Horse Master: Austin Gaskin, Studio: Ardmore Studios
Cast
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Sean Connery (Zed), Charlotte Rampling (Consuella), Sara Kestelman (May), John Alderton (Friend), Sally Anne Newton (Avalow), Niall Buggy (Arthur Frayn), Bosco Hogan (George Saden), Jessica Swift (Apathetic), Bairbre Dowling (Star), Christopher Casson (old scientist), Reginald Jarman (death), John Boorman ([a brutal shot by Zed]), David De Keyser ([voice of Tabernacle])