The night of the rolling heads
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The night of the rolling heads |
| Original title | Passi di danza su una lama di rasoio |
| Country of production | Italy , Spain |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1973 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
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| Director | Maurizio Pradeaux |
| script | Maurizio Pradeaux, Alfonso Balcázar , Arpad De Riso , George Martin |
| music | Roberto Pregadio |
| camera | Jaime Deu Casas |
| cut | Enzo Alabiso |
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The Night of the Rolling Heads (Original: Passi di danza su una lama di rasoio ) is an Italian-Spanish crime film belonging to the Giallo with elements of the horror film from 1973. Directed by Maurizio Pradeaux , who together with Alfonso Balcázar, Arpad DeRiso and George Martin also wrote the script.
In Germany, the film was first released on February 1, 1974 and indexed about eight years later, on November 16, 1982 . On October 31, 2007, the genre film was finally removed from the list of media harmful to minors. Before that, it was subjected to a reassessment by the Federal Testing Office for media harmful to minors.
action
Italy in the present. The Swede Katja, who is waiting for her Italian fiancé Alberto on a viewing platform, happens to be an eyewitness through coin binoculars to a cold-blooded murder of an initially unknown dancer , which nobody wants to believe. Unfortunately Katja does not succeed in recognizing the murderer, she only perceives him dimly; The same applies to the crime scene, which she can only find again by means of a striking external staircase and house number 57 . Contrary to the request of her handicapped friend, a strange artist who wants to attract attention with bizarre performances, the conscientious woman reports the incident to the police that evening. The Commissioner in charge Merughi, however, pays little heed to her remarks and proves to be an outspoken skeptic.
However, that changes when the body of a famous ballerina is found the next morning . The police are now condemned to action. Mysterious deaths soon increased, the vast majority of which came from members of a renowned dance school. The unknown, black-clad killer proceeds with extreme severity and cuts his victims' throats with a razor . The police are initially at a loss and pursue their own theories that even cast suspicion on Alberto. In order to prove his innocence, the suspect researches together with Katja. They are looking for the violent razor killer who has meanwhile been killing other mostly female dancers and witnesses. In addition to the couple and the police, who are completely perplexed and employ dubious investigative methods, the committed reporter Lidia also goes on a search for the murderer's true identity.
The falsely suspect Alberto, after a series of errors and confusions, achieves the decisive breakthrough in the investigation when he notices that the victims all come from the Okrowich ballet school . At night, he and his fiancée and the secretary of the dance academy gain access to the property, which he searches for usable traces. Somehow he is separated from Katja, who is being chased by the suddenly appearing killer. While shouting loudly, she manages to draw attention to herself, so that the police, who have meanwhile been alarmed, can shoot the stranger in black before he seriously injures Katja. The murderer is unmasked at the end of the film - it is Marco, Lidia's impotent friend, who was ridiculed because of a disability and was unable to realize his dream of a career in dance. As a psychopathic prevented dancer, he has since taken revenge on those spoiled by success who once humiliated and ostracized him as a failure.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films writes that the film looks like a “horror thriller without atmosphere” , which has been replaced by “red color and echoing steps” . The lexicon of the horror film means that the work is a "bloody rascal film with various horror effects" and generally advises against film.
Web links
- Death Carries a Cane in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The night of the rolling heads in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ The night of the rolling heads. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Cf. Ronald M. Hahn , Volker Jansen: Lexikon des Horror-Films (= Bastei-Lübbe-Taschenbuch. 28130). Bastei-Verlag Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1985, ISBN 3-404-28130-6 , p. 320.