The Brig
- Released on
War, Drama
•- Runtime
- 68 mins
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Jonas Mekas’s film captures The Living Theatre’s stage production of The Brig, an unflinching portrait of life inside a U.S. Marine Corps jail in Japan in 1957. Over the course of a single day, prisoners endure relentless drills, abuse, and dehumanization, exposing the brutality of military discipline with stark immediacy.
Jonas Mekas’s film captures The Living Theatre’s stage production of The Brig, an unflinching portrait of life inside a U.S. Marine Corps jail in Japan in 1957. Over the course of a single day, prisoners endure relentless drills, abuse, and dehumanization, exposing the brutality of military discipline with stark immediacy.
Cast
- Warren Finnerty
- Henry Howard
- Tom Lilard
- James Tiroff
- Steven Ben Israel
- Rufus Collins
- Gene Lipton
- Michael Elias
- William Shari
- Viktor Allen
- George Bartenieff
- Gene Gordon
- Mark Duffy
- Henry Proach
- Carl Einhorn
- Luke Theodore
- Jim Anderson
Director
- Jonas Mekas
Producers
- David C. Stone
