On Top of the Whale (1982)

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Original Title: Het dak van de Walvis

Release Date: February 04, 1982

Runtime: 97 minutes

Budget: $0.0

Revenue: $0.0

Overview

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.