Bluebeard (1972)
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German title | Bluebeard |
Original title | Barbel bleu |
Country of production | Italy , France , Germany |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 1972 |
length | 124 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 18 |
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Director |
Edward Dmytryk Luciano Sacripanti |
script |
Ennio De Concini Edward Dmytryk Maria Pia Fusco |
production |
Alexander Salkind Pierre Spengler |
music |
Ennio Morricone Maria Pia Fusco |
camera | Gábor Pogány |
cut | Jean Ravel |
occupation | |
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Bluebeard (Original title: Barbe bleu) is a thriller by the American director Edward Dmytryk from 1972 .
action
Baron Kurt von Sepper's wife is dead. Shortly after the funeral, he meets and loves the pretty American Anne. Anne moves in with him at the castle, and the wedding is soon to be celebrated. But Anne feels increasingly uncomfortable in the huge building. She seems to recognize a sinister face in every picture, and her husband also seems very strange to her. Her friend Sergio encourages her. But Anne is not happy. She hasn't even slept with her husband.
Shortly afterwards, Baron Kurt von Sepper travels to Vienna. He leaves Anne a playmate, Rosa, and a bunch of keys. "You must never use the golden key," he says when saying goodbye. Anne has fun with Rosa in the castle. Surprisingly, she has to go to the pharmacy in the city that evening and leaves Anne alone. She takes the golden key and tries it. Soon she finds the secret door that it suits and opens it. There she finds the bodies of six women in a hidden room. Her husband also returns surprisingly. He presents the nervous Anne with a photo that was triggered when she opened the door to the secret room. “I have to kill you like the others,” says the baron. Before that, he tells her the story of the death of the other women. Now Anne has to realize how dangerous the situation she is in is.
The baron is impotent. And every time a woman approaches him and realizes this, she is put aside.
criticism
"A macabre horror shocker who lapses into lengthy breathlessness through numerous repetitions and tries with analytical ambition, but hardly necessarily, to show the causal connections between sexuality and fascism."
Web links
- Bluebeard in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Bluebeard in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Bluebeard. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film Service , accessed September 27, 2011 .