One of the most important films of the disoriented seventies, Jonah ..., according to director Alain Tanner, is "a dramatic tragicomedy in political science fiction." This rich concoction of color and black-and-white, songs, skits, economics, dreams, speeches, and sexual experimentation tells the story of eight individuals in Geneva: a copy editor, a secretary, a rural worker and his factory-worker wife, a teacher, and a supermarket cashier—all trying, in different ways, to maintain the ideals of May 1968 and to find alternatives to capitalism. Stranded between revolution and accommodation, their paths briefly cross in search of a common purpose. Tanner and the English Marxist writer John Berger created that rare species: a polemical comedy whose protagonists are warmly and vividly portrayed.