Duck Soup

Anarchy, mayhem and music clash in this Marx Brothers miniature masterpiece.

  • Director

    Leo McCarey

  • With

    The Marx Brothers, Margaret Dumont

  • USA 1933. 69min

  • Digital 4K

  • Certificate

    U

The famous ‘mirror-scene’ sequence alone would be enough to assure this Marx Brothers film cult status, but its lightning-paced, joke-heavy, music-laden depiction of the financially struggling nation of Freedonia and its highly dubious leader Rufus T Firefly (Groucho Marx at his best) mark it out as true, and highly influential, comedy classic. It was also the last film for Zeppo, the youngest Marx brother, who left acting to take up a successful career as a theatrical agent.

The screening of Duck Soup on Wednesday 25 June 18:30 NFT2 will be introduced by Sam Clements, host of 90 Minutes Or Less Film Fest podcast.