Round 6: Tossup 1

While living in Scandinavia, a director from this country made the 14-hour-long pro-nuclear disarmament film Resan and a three-hour-long biopic of Edvard Munch. That director from this country reads out the temperature throughout a 1971 film in which guards force detainees to trek for miles without water towards a flag planted across a desert. (-5[1])This is the home country of the director of the mockumentaries La Commune, The War Game, and Punishment Park. A 2016 film from this country juxtaposes footage of Nicolae (*) Ceaușescu’s execution with clips from Jane Fonda’s aerobics videos. That film from this country uses the production of Stalker to discuss a concept whose portmanteau name was coined by a Russian historian. A director from this country uses title cards in all-caps Helvetica to punctuate voiceover-heavy films about media, such as The Century of the Self and HyperNormalisation. (10[1])For 10 points, name this home country of Peter Watkins and Adam Curtis. ■END■ (0[1])

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