The cursed house

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Movie
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
Rod
Director Elio Petri
script Luciano Vincenzoni ,
Elio Petri
production Alberto Grimaldi
music Ennio Morricone
camera Luigi Kuveiller
cut Ruggero Mastroianni
occupation

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

Individual evidence

  1. a b Source: Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 290/1969, p. 291.
  2. See prisma.de
  3. See filmtipps.at