The film's subject is a photograph of Jane Fonda visiting Hanoi during the Vietnam War. It asks what the position of the intellectual should be in the class struggle and points out the irony of Jane Fonda's participation in the photo shoot, which was staged.
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Jane Fonda
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jean-Luc Godard
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Jean-Pierre Gorin
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Marlon Brando
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Moshe Dayan
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
James Dean
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Maria Falconetti
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Henry Fonda
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lillian Gish
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Che Guevara
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Golda Meir
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Yves Montand
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Richard Nixon
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
John Wayne
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
