Zabriskie Point
How you get there depends on where you're at.
Country
Production
Genre
Budget
$7 000 000
Box office
$975 745
Director
Actors
Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin, Paul Fix, G. D. Spradlin, Bill Garaway, Kathleen Cleaver, Rod Taylor, Martin Abrahams, Michael L. Davis, Lee Duncan
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Carlo Ponti, Harrison Starr
Camera operator
Alfio Contini
Composer
Artist
Audition
Short description
Anthropology student Daria, who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert, and dropout Mark, who's wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot, accidentally encounter each other in Death Valley and soon begin an unrestrained romance.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film is named after the location “Zabriskie Point” in Death Valley.
- A 17-minute scene that was not included in the film, called “The Violent Sequence,” whose main theme was composed by Richard Wright, the keyboardist for Pink Floyd, later became the basis for the song “Us & Them” from the famous album “The Dark Side of the Moon.”
- Harrison Ford appeared in the film, but all scenes with him were cut during editing.
- Mark Frechette worked as a carpenter. He was accidentally spotted on the streets of Boston when he got into an argument with a woman. This kind of explosive personality was exactly what was needed for the film envisioned by the outstanding film master Michelangelo Antonioni.
- A real house in Keefry, Arizona was used for filming. A replica of it was used for the explosion scene, built near Southwestern Studios in Keefry. Building the replica cost $100,000, and its explosion was filmed with 17 cameras.
- In the original finale of the film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, an airplane wrote the words “Fuck You, America” in the sky, but MGM president Louis F. Polk ordered it and many other scenes cut from the film. James I. Aubrey, who replaced Polk in that position, restored many of the deleted scenes to the film, but not the episode with the airplane.
- The orgy scene involved 100 people, half of whom were recruited from Joseph Chaikin's experimental theater troupe, the Open Theatre, and the other half from among the hippies.
- Conservatives condemned Antonioni for burning the American flag, the Oakland sheriff accused the director of coming to incite popular unrest, and the state authorities launched an investigation into alleged "anti-Americanism".
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