On Top of the Whale

• Movies
• 1982-02-04
• NL
• Released
• 2h 37m
• Fantasy

• 7.0
• 12

Production

Film International Rotterdam

Storyline

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.