The Stendhal Syndrome

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Movie
German title The Stendhal Syndrome
Original title La sindrome di Stendhal
Country of production Italy
original language Italian
Publishing year 1996
length 120 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Dario Argento
script Dario Argento
music Ennio Morricone
camera Giuseppe Rotunno
cut Angelo Nicolini
occupation

The Stendhal Syndrome , also Das Stendhal Syndrome or Das Stendhal Syndrome - Pictures of Madness , is an Italian Giallo thriller from 1996, written and filmed by Dario Argento with his daughter Asia Argento in the lead role. It was the first Italian film to use Computer Generated Imagery (CGI).

The work was published in Italy on January 26, 1996. The first German video evaluation took place on July 29, 1996.

action

Commissioner Anna Manni travels to Florence on the trail of a serial killer . In a museum Anna suffers from Stendhal's syndrome , so overwhelmed by the impression of great works of art. The killer takes advantage of this disruption to kidnap and rape Anna. She escapes, but is severely traumatized . When she is kidnapped and raped by the killer one more time, however, she is able to free herself and after a fight render him harmless and push him into a waterfall. After a while, Anna's new love Marie is murdered. It turns out that Anna has developed a split personality through the trauma and continues to murder on behalf of her tormentor. Anna is finally caught by her colleagues.

production

The entrance scene was filmed in the Uffizi . Dario Argento is one of the few feature film directors who was allowed to shoot in the Uffizi. The picture that literally goes into the Anna's The Night Watch by Rembrandt , located in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is, the image is powerless before Anna is The Fall of Icarus by Pieter Brueghel and suspended in a Brussels museum .

After his first three films (1970–1971), the director and composer had fallen out violently, and it was the first time that Argento has worked again with Ennio Morricone. Image Musik produced the album La Sindrome Di Stendhal (original soundtrack) from Morricone's film music .

Reviews

The lexicon of international films wrote that the production endeavors in the form of a thriller to "explain those deformations" that could cause rape. The basic idea would be “not implemented consistently” and would have “many explanatory gaps” so that the film would “get lost in the wildly speculative mess of madness and reality, fear and despair”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. cf. Overview of the film on IMDb.com, accessed December 30, 2009
  2. ^ A b The Stendhal Syndrome in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used
  3. ^ Jürgen Vordermann: Seizures of vertigo in the Uffizi Die Welt, July 26, 1995, accessed on September 5, 2018