Extraordinary stories
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Extraordinary stories |
| Original title | Histoires extraordinaires |
| Country of production | France , Italy |
| original language | French , English |
| Publishing year | 1968 |
| length | 121 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director |
"Metzengerstein" : Roger Vadim "William Wilson" : Louis Malle "Toby Dammit": Federico Fellini |
| script |
"Metzengerstein": Roger Vadim Pascal Cousin "William Wilson": Louis Malle Clement Biddle Wood "Toby Dammit": Federico Fellini Bernardino Zapponi |
| production |
Raymond Eger Alberto Grimaldi |
| music |
"William Wilson": Diego Masson "Metzengerstein": Jean Prodromidès "Toby Dammit": Nino Rota |
| camera |
"William Wilson": Tonino Delli Colli "Metzengerstein": Claude Renoir "Toby Dammit": Giuseppe Rotunno |
| cut |
"Metzengerstein": Hélène Plemiannikov "William Wilson": Franco Arcalli Suzanne Baron "Toby Dammit": Ruggero Mastroianni |
| occupation | |
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"Metzengerstein":
"William Wilson":
"Toby Dammit":
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Extraordinary stories (original title: Histoires extraordinaires ) is an episode film by three different directors - Federico Fellini , Louis Malle and Roger Vadim - from 1968. Three short stories were filmed by Edgar Allan Poe : Metzengerstein from Vadim, William Wilson from Malle and Never Bet the Devil Your Head as Toby Dammit from Fellini. The film was also released under the German title Mysterious Events .
action
Metzengerstein
At the age of 22, Countess Federica inherits the property in Metzengerstein and from then on leads a dissolute and permissive life. During a stay in the forest, her leg falls into a trap and is freed by her neighbor Baron Wilhelm, whom she has never met due to a long-standing family feud . She falls in love with him, but he rejects her because of her lifestyle. Federica's rejection angered him and she set his stables on fire. William dies trying to save his award-winning horses.
Somehow, however, a black horse can escape and makes its way to Metzengerstein Castle. The horse is very fierce and Federica takes it on to tame it. Once she notices that a damaged wallpaper looks very similar to the new horse. Obsessed with it, she orders it to be repaired. During a thunderstorm , Federica is carried by the roaming horse into a fire set off by lightning .
William Wilson
During the 19th century, northern Italy was occupied by Austrian troops. A man named William Wilson rushes to a priest in a church in Bergamo's "Città Alta" to confess that he has committed murder. Then he tells him the story of the cruel paths that run through his life. While they are playing cards, another man named William Wilson proves that he is cheating while playing. Angry, the protagonist Wilson stabs the other. After making his confession, Wilson commits suicide by jumping from the tower of the “Palazzo della Ragione”.
Toby Dammit
Former Shakespeare actor Toby Dammit is becoming increasingly addicted to alcohol, ruining his acting career. He agrees to act in a film for which he is paid with a Ferrari . After helping a little girl find her ball again, he begins to get visions of the girl and the ball. After a long ceremony during which he received his Ferrari, he sped away intoxicated in his new car. Workers try to stop Dammit at a ravine with a collapsed bridge, but he just keeps going. When his car reached the other side, Dammit's head was severed from a pipe that spanned the gorge. The little girl can be seen again.
Reviews
“While Fellini turns the story of the drug and alcohol addicted pop star who comes to Rome to film and dies there into a grotesque and sometimes self-deprecating satire, Vadim and Malle, who tend to stick to the literary models, have little more than erotic and To offer sadism. "
Web links
- Spirits of the Dead in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Extraordinary Stories. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .