The Crimson Permanent Assurance

(1983)

★ 7.2 IMDb · 130 votes

Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure

Year: 1983

Runtime: 16 мин

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Терри Гиллиам

Cast: Sydney Arnold, Guy Bertrand, Andrew Bicknell, Ross Davidson, Myrtle Devenish, Tim Douglas, Мэтт Фрюэр, Billy John, Russell Kilmister, Peter Mantle

Plot

A group of down-and-out accountants mutiny against their bosses and sail their office building onto the high seas in search of a pirate's life.

In the bleak days of 1983, the Crimson Permanent Assurance, an accountancy staffed by elderly workers much like a slave ship, has been taken over by efficiency-minded corporate types. When they sack an employee, there's an uprising, and the building is unleashed from its moorings to sail across the (dry) ocean and take on the financial centers of the world, starting with an all-out attack on the large skyscraper housing The Very Big Corporation of America, complete with filing-cabinet cannons, ceiling-fan broadswords, and paper-spindle short-swords.