- HD 1080
- Runtime: 142m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United Kingdom
- Director: Don Levy
- Stars: Michael Gothard, Gabriella Licudi, Peter Stephens, Antony Paul, Mona Hammond
- keywords: media, suicide attempt, poet, celebrity
- Production_studio: BBC, BFI Experimental Film Fund
- providers: Cultpix
- The Herostratus is featured in the top rankings of 1967
- #67 in Top Drama Movies of 1967
When a young poet hires a marketing company to turn his suicide into a mass-media spectacle, he finds that his subversive intentions are quickly diluted into a reactionary gesture.