The Child - The city becomes a nightmare

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Movie
German title The Child - The city becomes a nightmare
Original title Chi l'ha vista the?
Country of production Italy , Germany
original language English
Publishing year 1972
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Aldo Lado
script Francesco Barilli
Massimo D'Avak
production Enzo Doria
music Ennio Morricone
camera Franco Di Giacomo
cut Angelo Curi
occupation
synchronization

The Child - The city becomes a nightmare (original title: Chi l'ha vista morire? ) Is an Italian giallo by the director Aldo Lado from 1972 . The main roles were played by George Lazenby , Anita Strindberg and Adolfo Celi . The German-language premiere took place in 1985 on video.

action

In Megève, France, the red-haired girl Nicole is killed during a winter stay. Four years later, little Roberta Serpieri visits her father Franco Serpieri, a well-known sculptor, in Venice. However, shortly after arrival she disappears without a trace and is found dead a little later. Her trusting father Franco begins to investigate on his own because he does not trust the seedy Inspector De Donato. Roberta's mother, Elizabeth Serpieri, has also come from Amsterdam and is looking for the murderer. The striking analogies of the murders lead them to different people whom they know only briefly and are now suspect: the merchant Serafian, a friend, Ginevra Storelli and her lover Filippo Venier; a paralyzed godchild of Serafian and a lawyer, Bonaiuto. Nothing seems to happen; the parents themselves are in mortal danger. In the end, Franco discovers that Father James, Serafian's brother, committed the murders as he is plagued by memories of his mother, a red-haired prostitute.

background

  • The soundtrack, determined by a children's choir led by Paolo Lucci, was released on LP (Gemelli GG-ST 10.017) and later on CD.
  • International distribution title is Who Saw Her Die?

criticism

The "mixture of thriller and horror film" was highly regarded in Germany: "" The Child "captivates from the first minute with its dreamy images of the morbid lagoon city and its hypnotic music. And the gondolas are in mourning, ”write the filmtipps.at . The film critic Christian Keßler praised the film as a “great thriller” and concluded: “With a virtuoso but not too intrusive use of the tried and tested tension-increasing means (e.g. subjective camera positions), Aldo Lado does it in what is probably his best film exemplary way of enhancing a good script with real style (...) ”. The Italian Segnalazioni Cinematografiche were less enthusiastic. They saw “meager technical skills in the service of a confused and artificial film” and also criticized the alternation of sadistic and erotic scenes. In La Stampa , S.Reggiani, on the other hand, praised the idea of ​​relocating the scene to the lagoon city and noticed successful suggestive effects.

synchronization

role actor Voice actor
Franco Serpieri George Lazenby Joachim Kerzel
Elizabeth Serpieri Anita Strindberg Traudel Haas
Serafian Adolfo Celi Horst Schön
Ginevra Storelli Dominique Boschero Rita Engelmann
Philip Vernon Peter Chatel Uwe Paulsen
Kuni, journalist Piero Vida Andreas Mannkopff
Nicola Bonaiuti José Quaglio Christian Rode
Father James Alessandro Haber Claus Jurichs

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.discogs.com/Ennio-Morricone-Chi-Lha-Vista-Morire-Original-Soundtrack/release/1763595
  2. The Child - The city becomes a nightmare. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ^ The film filmtipps.at
  4. Christian Keßler in the journal Splatting Image No. 18; June 1994
  5. reference
  6. La Stampa, June 4, 1972, quoted from Roberto Chiti, Roberto Poppi, Mario Pecorari: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I film vol. 4, A / L. Gremese, 1996, p. 168
  7. The Child - The city becomes a nightmare. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .