Who Is Beta?

Who Is Beta? (1972)

DramaScience Fiction

The critical success in France of How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman made possible dos Santos’ delirious science-fiction vision of free love in a post-apocalyptic wilderness besieged by flesh hungry zombies contaminated by an unnamed nuclear attack. Who is Beta? follows two statuesque survivors drawn irresistibly together only to be entranced by the arrival and sudden disappearance of a third, the bewitching raven haired Beta. With its cartoon-like depiction of extreme violence and desire, Who is Beta? offers a heady Pop-infused companion to Hunger for Love. Yet beneath its giddy play of surfaces, dos Santos' underappreciated film gradually reveals a darkly ambiguous metaphoric dimension. -Harvard Film Archive

Director: Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Casts

	Noëlle Adam as Road woman
	Sylvie Fennec as Beta
	Frédéric de Pasquale as Maurício
	Regina Rosemburg as Regina
	Isabel Ribeiro as
	Nildo Parente as
	Manfredo Colassanti as
	Arduíno Colassanti as
	Ana Maria Miranda as
	Flávio São Thiago as

Crew