# Obscure Film: Call Me a Cannibal

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**Created:** [June 24, 2010, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-film-call-me-a-cannibal/544290 "2010-06-24T00:11:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-film-call-me-a-cannibal/544290/1 "2010-06-24T00:11:57Z")

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I was trying to track down a film I saw in a San Francisco arthouse, ca. 1973-75, and much to my surprise, not _everything_ can be found on the Internet. It was a cautionary sci-fi tale called “_Call Me a Cannibal_,” based on _Antigone_. Dissidents were being shot in the streets, and left to decay by order of the government, who thought it served as a warning against further uprisings. You know what happens next if you’re familiar with the original source. The final scene had a young girl sitting amongst the dead bodies (as people walked by with handkerchiefs to their noses) strumming a guitar and singing a song that went, in part, “Call me a cannibal, I won’t die.”  
I must regularly visit every obscure cinematic site on the Web, and I’m beginning to believe this was some sort of hallucination or something. Has anyone else seen this?

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**Author:** ![ChrisM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/47e85d/32.png) [@ChrisM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisM)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-film-call-me-a-cannibal/544290/2 "2010-06-24T00:21:09Z")

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This sounds like the same movie:

> **[The Year of the Cannibals (1969) ⭐ 6.3 | Drama](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065518/)**
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> 1h 28m | GP

I’ve never seen it, though.

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**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-film-call-me-a-cannibal/544290/3 "2010-06-24T03:55:19Z")

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I believe that’s it. Thank you!  
Now to try to _find_ a copy . . .

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**Author:** ![Paolo\_Ghisleni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/dc4da7/32.png) [@Paolo\_Ghisleni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paolo_Ghisleni)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-film-call-me-a-cannibal/544290/4 "2012-04-12T12:49:46Z")

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dear  
A forty years ago you were not victim of an hallucination. The movie you saw in 1973-75 really exists. His title is not “Call me a cannibal”, but simply “I cannibali”. Is an italian movie of 1970, directed by Liliana Cavani, with Pierre Clementi, Britt Ekland, Delia Boccardo and others. Is a transposition in a distopic future (but not too different from what was our present in the seventies and from what is now) of the myth of Antigone.  
Call me a cannibal, I want die, was the refrain of the song with wich the movie begins and finishes.The singer was Don Powell, an american singer, I think.

If you write “I cannibali Liliana Cavani” on google, you find a lot of sites on this movie, but, unfortunately for you, every information is in italian  
Bye  
Paolo