Country: Spain
Year: 1972
Duration: 105'
Susan is a young bride on her honeymoon. She and her husband reach the castle that her husband has inherited from a family that included Mircala Karstein. Mircala was found dead beside her husband, whom she had killed on her first night of marriage. Susan ends up worrying her husband. Every night she has nightmares where she says she sees a certain Carmila, who, incidentally, she runs into in the woods nearby. The plot thickens when the dagger used in the Karstein murder re-appears in the hands of little Carol, the daughter of the housekeepers, and then in the hands of Susan herself.
Biography
film director
Vicente Aranda
Vicente Aranda (Barcelona, 1926) during the early 1960s with Fata Morgana (1965) he became part of the School of Barcelona. In 1976 he directed Cambio de sexo, which marked the beginning of his collaboration with the actress Victoria Abril and introduced the themes of passion and eroticism, a constant in his most successful films: Amantes (1991), El amante bilingüe (1993), and La mirada del otro (1998). He made a name for himself with his cinematographic transpositions of Spanish novels and short stories – the two films dedicated to the bandit El Lute were great national successes – and in 2001 he inaugurated a trilogy of costume dramas, Juana la Loca (2001), Carmen (2003) and Tirante el Blanco (2006).
FILMOGRAFIA
Fata Morgana (1965), La novia ensangrentada (Un abito da sposa macchiato di sangue, 1972), Cambio de sexo (Cambio di sesso, 1977), Tiempo de silencio (Il tempo del silenzio, 1986), El Lute, camina o revienta (El Lute, o cammina o schiatta, 1987), El Lute II, mañana seré libre (1988), Amantes (Amantes - Amanti, 1991), El amante bilingüe (L’amante bilingue, 1993), La mirada del otro (Lo sguardo dell’altro, 1998), Juana la Loca (Giovanna la pazza, 2001), Carmen (Per amare Carmen, 2003), Tirante el Blanco (2006)
Cast
& Credits
Director: Vicente Aranda.
Plot: Matthew Lewis, da un romanzo di Sheridan Le Fanu.
Screenplay: Vicente Aranda.
Director of photography: Fernando Arribas.
Editor: Pablo González del Amo.
Music: Antonio Perez Olea.
Cast and characters: Alexandra Bastedo (Mircalla Karstein), Simón Andreu (marito), Maribel Martín (Susan), Dean Selmier (il medico), Rosa Rodríguez (Carol).
Production company: Jaime Fernández-Cid per Morgana.
Plot: Matthew Lewis, da un romanzo di Sheridan Le Fanu.
Screenplay: Vicente Aranda.
Director of photography: Fernando Arribas.
Editor: Pablo González del Amo.
Music: Antonio Perez Olea.
Cast and characters: Alexandra Bastedo (Mircalla Karstein), Simón Andreu (marito), Maribel Martín (Susan), Dean Selmier (il medico), Rosa Rodríguez (Carol).
Production company: Jaime Fernández-Cid per Morgana.