On Top of the Whale
Het dak van de Walvis
Released 1982 • 44 years ago1h 37m7 cast members
- Fantasy
- Drama
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.
