Cain's Film

1969 27 min

Overview

A film about Alexander Trocchi. Scottish born poet, writer, translator and author of "Young Adam" and "Cain's Book". Part of the film was made at the old Arts Laboratory and includes a discussion with William Burroughs. A portrait of Alexander Trocchi, covering his history as a writer, his interest in drugs, his family life, and ‘Sigma’, the organisation he founded to bring together like-minded people.

Genres

Documentary

Production Countries

United Kingdom

Spoken Languages

English en

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Cast

Alexander Trocchi

William S. Burroughs

Self

R.D. Laing

Jim Haynes

Narrator

Davy Graham

Self

Shawn Phillips

Feliks Topolski

Crew

Jamie Wadhavan

Director

Richard Pratt

Cinematography

Jamie Wadhavan

Writer

Davy Graham

Music

Shawn Phillips

Music

Posters

External Links

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