ATOMIC CAFE

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• Release Year: 1982
• Genre: Comedy, Documentary
• Plot: 'A comic horror film.' -The Village Voice; ; On it's 20-year anniversary, and not a moment too soon, The Atomic Caféis back to provide us with a much needed release of comic energy. A dark comedy in the truest sense, this timeless classic took the nation by storm when it first debuted in theaters in 1982. The film recounts a defining period of 20th century history and serves as a chilling and often hilarious reminder of cold-war era paranoia in the United States - artfully presented through a collage of newsreel footage, government archives, military training films, and fifties music. Profoundly shocking and perversely topical, The Atomic Café craftily captures a panicked nation, offering a fascinating and witty account of life during the atomic age and resulting cold war, when fall-out shelters, duck-and-cover drills, and government propaganda were all a part of our social consciousness. Regarded by critics as 'a nuclear Reefer Madness' and likened to Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, this profoundly shocking and highly amusing film is a stunner, a gripping account of an unforgettable era and an indisputable 'must-see' for all Americans.
• Cast: Lloyd Bentsen, Owen Brewster, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Frank Gallop, Lyndon Johnson, Maurice Joyce, Nikita Khrushchev, Brian McMahon, Seymour Melman, George Molan, Val Peterson, George Portell, George Putnam, Ronald Reagan, Ethel Rosenberg, Julius Rosenberg, Mario Salvadori, Lewis Strauss, Harry S. Truman, W.H.P. Blandy, Richard Nixon, Paul Tibbets, James E. Van Zandt, Joseph Stalin, Hugh Beaumont, Albert Einstein, J. Edgar Hoover, Douglas MacArthur, Joseph McCarthy, William H. Peterson, George A. Smathers, Pierce Rafferty
• Director: Pierce Rafferty
• Runtime: 1:28
• Company: New Video DVD
• Media Format: Movie