If.... (film)

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If.... is a cult film by British director Lindsay Anderson, based on David Sherwin's original script, "Crusaders".

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In the film, students at an English public school revolt bloodily against the establishment around them. It starred Malcolm McDowell as Mick Travis, a character Lindsay would use in two sequels. Arthur Lowe, Peter Jeffrey, Richard Warwick, David Wood, and Christine Noonan also take starring roles.

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It was filmed at the time of the student uprisings in Paris in May 1968. Cheltenham College, Anderson's old school, was used for outside locations. At one point in the film Mick Travis' words are "There's no such thing as a wrong war. Violence and revolution are the only pure acts"

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The movie has surrealist stretches interspersed throughout and is often compared to Jean Vigo's French classic Z?ro de Conduite.

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It won the 1969 Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2004 the magazine Total Film named it the 16th greatest British movie of all time.

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