The cursed house
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German title | The cursed house |
Original title | Un tranquillo posto di campagna |
Country of production | Italy , France |
original language | Italian , English |
Publishing year | 1968 |
length | 106 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 16 |
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Director | Elio Petri |
script |
Luciano Vincenzoni , Elio Petri |
production | Alberto Grimaldi |
music | Ennio Morricone |
camera | Luigi Kuveiller |
cut | Ruggero Mastroianni |
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The cursed house (original title: Un tranquillo posto di campagna , German alternative title: Ein Einsamer Platz ) is an Italian-French feature film from 1968 by Elio Petri . The script was written by Luciano Vincenzoni and the director. Franco Nero and Vanessa Redgrave can be seen in the main roles . The work had its world premiere on November 14, 1968 in Italy. The film premiered in the Federal Republic of Germany in June 1969 at the 19th Berlin International Film Festival .
action
Thanks to his girlfriend, the art dealer Flavia, the young pop painter Leonardo leads a comfortable life. Sometimes, however, Flavia's activity is almost too much for him, and he wants a quiet place in the country to work. He also finds this place, an old country house, in whose crumbling walls the memory of the girl Wanda still nests, who experienced her countless love affairs here. Wanda's mind takes hold of Leonardo more and more; obsessions in which he tries to kill Flavia plague him. The boundaries between madness and reality are blurring more and more until Leonardo finds himself in a sanatorium, where he paints picture after picture in exchange for sex magazines for the enterprising Flavia.
criticism
The Protestant film observer sums up his criticism as follows: “In artistic colors and with spooky and thriller effects, the Italian Elio Petri paints the picture of a painter who, with the onset of schizophrenia, is soon no longer able to differentiate between madness and reality. The film, located somewhere between pop milieu and black humor, confuses viewers more than it keeps them tense. Only for adult film fans with a weakness for films of this kind. ”The TV magazine Prisma calls the film a“ passable horror piece ”. The internet forum filmtipps.at describes the work as an interesting crossover between genre and art film as well as a little forgotten film jewel that is worth rediscovering.
Award
At the 1969 Berlin International Film Festival, Luigi Kuveiller received a Silver Bear for his camera work.
Web links
- The cursed house in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Pictures of the film on cinema.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Source: Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 290/1969, p. 291.
- ↑ See prisma.de
- ↑ See filmtipps.at