Maldoror

10/18/1977

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1hr 40min

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STORY

The inspiration, as the title tells, was Les Chants de Maldoror (The Songs of Maldoror). Cavallone followed only loosely the poem, interpolating some of its most outrageous content within the story of a film director, Paolo (Gianni Garko) who’s undergoing a deep personal crisis. The first part (which producer Giuseppe Tortorella labelled "mythological porn") is set in Italy, as Marco is working on a film called Maldoror, and focuses on his tormented relationship with a married woman, Monica (Jane Avril). According to the script, it was filled with excessive and cruel images, extracts from the film-within-a-film which were liberally spliced within the plot, and in their uneasiness somehow predated Pasolini’s Salò.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Inga Alexandrova
  • Tony Askin
  • Martial Boschero
  • Sherry Buchanan
  • Gianni Garko

    Director

  • Alberto Cavallone

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