Country: Italy, GFR
Year: 1960
Duration: 87'
Russia 1830. Doctor Kruvajan and Doctor Gorobec are headed for Moscow in order to participate in a scientific conference when they are forced to pass through a dark wood. In a de-consecrated chapel they discover the sarcophagus of a witch who was executed a century ago. Kruvajan injures himself and a drop of his blood falls on the mummified corpse. This brings the witch back to life. The witch is thirsty for vengeance and heads for a castle where her great granddaughter, Katia lives with her father.
Biography
film director
Mario Bava
Mario Bava (San Remo, 1914) died in Rome 1980. His father was a camera person at the time of silent movies and passed down to Mario his passion for the cinema as well as a love for painting and an interest in everything that is connected with images. Until 1960 he worked as director of photography. In the 1940s he directed a few short films. He debuted as a director with Black Sunday, today still considered his masterpiece. Subsequently, he started to make color films and began to make a long series of gothic horror films that have largely been overlooked in Italian criticism. His cinema has earned a healthy reputation abroad and has been subjected to an important re-evaluation over the last thirty years.
FILMOGRAFIA
La maschera del demonio (1960), I tre volti della paura (1963), La frusta e il corpo (1963), Sei donne per l'assassino (1964), Terrore nello spazio (1965), Diabolik (1968), Il rosso segno della follia (1969), Reazione a catena (1971), Gli orrori del castello di Norimberga (1972), La casa dell'esorcismo (1974), Schock (1977), La venere d'Ille (1978).
Cast
& Credits
Director and director of photography: Mario Bava.
Plot: da un racconto di Nikolaj Gogol.
Screenplay: Mario Bava, Marcello Coscia, Ennio De Concini, Mario Serandrei.
Art director: Giorgio Giovannini.
Editor: Mario Serandrei.
Music: Roberto Nicolosi.
Cast and characters: Barbara Steele (Katia Vajda), John Richardson (Dr. André Gorobec), Andrea Checchi (Dr. Thomas Kruvajan), Ivo Garrani (principe Vajda), Arturo Dominici (Javutich), Tino Bianchi (Ivan).
Production company: Massimo De Rita per Galatea/Jolly Film.
Plot: da un racconto di Nikolaj Gogol.
Screenplay: Mario Bava, Marcello Coscia, Ennio De Concini, Mario Serandrei.
Art director: Giorgio Giovannini.
Editor: Mario Serandrei.
Music: Roberto Nicolosi.
Cast and characters: Barbara Steele (Katia Vajda), John Richardson (Dr. André Gorobec), Andrea Checchi (Dr. Thomas Kruvajan), Ivo Garrani (principe Vajda), Arturo Dominici (Javutich), Tino Bianchi (Ivan).
Production company: Massimo De Rita per Galatea/Jolly Film.
