Col cuore in gola
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| Directed by | Tinto Brass |
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Il sepolcro di carta by Sergio Donati |
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| Music by | Armando Trovajoli[1] |
| Cinematography | Silvano Ippoliti[1] |
| Edited by | Tinto Brass[1] |
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Running time | 107 minutes[1] |
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Col cuore in gola is a 1967 giallo film directed by Tinto Brass. It is loosely based on the novel Il sepolcro di carta by Sergio Donati. The film used storyboards from Guido Crepax.
Cast
- Jean-Louis Trintignant as Bernard
- Ewa Aulin as Jane
- Vira Silenti as Martha
- Roberto Bisacco as David
- Charles Kohler as Jerome
Production
Col cuore in gola was adapated from the paperback novel Il sepolcro di carta (1955) by Sergio Donati.[2] Brass noted he was not very fond of the novel, and his producers wanted Jean-Louis Trintignant as the lead.[2] On meeting Trintignant, he told him a different story than that of the novel which lead him to accept the role.[2] Brass had then sent over the actul script stating that he had changed his mind.[2]
Brass did later change the plot, moving the story location from Rome to London noting that "London represented what Paris had represented before it: the place of transgressiona nd freedom. Lots of things were happening. The Beatles were only one of them. It was Europe's liveliest urban center."[2] Brass expressed that he "wanted to make a film in ideograms-like in Chinese writing, where a symbol indicates a whole concept. So I did not film a horse but an eye, or a spur. The characters eem two-dimension, as in a comic."[2] In 1966 director Tinto Brass contacted Guido Crepax to draw the storyboards for the Cuol cuore in gola.[2] Crepax created color storyboards even though he was used to working in black-and-white.[2] For the cinematographer, Brass noted that his previous director of photography Bruno Barcarol had died and he needed a new one.[3][4] Brass later chose Silvano Ippoliti as he reminded him a bit of Barcarol.[4]
Release
The film was released in Italy in 1967 where it was not a commercial success.[1][4] The film was shown in the United States in Portland, Oregon on 7 September 1969.[5]
The film was released in the United States by the label Cult Epics.[4]
See also
References
Footnotes
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Curti 2016, p. 62.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Curti 2016, p. 63.
- ↑ Curti 2016, p. 64.
- 1 2 3 4 Curti 2016, p. 65.
- ↑ "Deadly Sweet". American Film Institute. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
Sources
- Curti, Roberto (2016). Diabolika: Supercriminals, Superheroes and the Comic Book Universe in Italian Cinema. Midnight Marquee Press. ISBN 978-1-936168-60-6.