Wholly Communion

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A short film documenting what was referred to as "The International Poetry Incarnation". It was billed as Great Britain's first full-scale "happening", with the world's leading Beat poets together under one roof at the Royal Albert Hall on June 11, 1965, for an evening of near-hallucinatory revelry. It came to be seen as one of the cultural high points of the Swinging Sixties.

Country:

United Kingdom

Genre:
Duration:

33 minutes

Year:

1965

Director:

Peter Whitehead

Cast:
Gregory Corso

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Harry Fainlight

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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Allen Ginsberg

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Michael Horovitz

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Crew:
Peter Whitehead

Director