Dreflix: Paradise Now: The Living Theater in Amerika

Paradise Now: The Living Theater in Amerika

A harrowing, gorgeous, in-your-face-and-mind 45-minute black-and-white film by Marty Topp, produced by Ira Cohen for Universal Mutant. “Marty Topp’s beautiful film of ‘Paradise Now’ reveals how the theories of revolutionary change and the experience of sexual liberation are not separate paths to the beautiful nonviolent anarchist revolution. Practiced together they are a single thrust, encompassing both political action and sensual joy, leading to the dreamed-of terrestrial paradise.

1969

Documentary·Drama·Fantasy

0h 45min

Top Billed Cast

Julian Beck
Judith Malina

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