Death May Be Your Santa Claus 55 years old

Frankie Dymon's Death May be Your Santa Claus (1969), arguably Britain's first and only example of a 'black power' movie, in which themes of sexual and political identity encircle one another in the context of a hip and hippy London of the late 1960s, suspended between the cinematic radicalisms of films such as Roeg's Performance, Godard's Sympathy for the Devil in which Dymon played a leading role, or Boorman's Leo the Last. Thought lost until quite recently, this inscrutably-titled film is described as a 'pop fantasy' and offers an intriguing look at 60s sex and politics from a black British perspective.

Credits

Death May Be Your Santa Claus Cast

Name Character
Ken Gajadhar

Death May Be Your Santa Claus Crew

Name Department
Clive Tickner as Cinematography. He was 25 (now 80) years old Crew
Frankie Dymon as Director. Directing
Frankie Dymon as Writer. Writing
Death May Be Your Santa Claus poster
Death May Be Your Santa Claus (55 years)

  • Release day: Wednesday, August 06, 1969
  • Runtime: 37 minutes