Country: USA
Year: 2001
Duration: 45'
Mr Cooke dies, leaving his three children, with an enormous inheritance. But there is one catch: in order to get their money, they are forced to live together forever. The three siblings detest one another and do nothing but bicker. The oldest sibling, Charles, hires Dr Schadenfreude, a weird German doctor to help him get rid of his siblings. Schadenfreude, however, has his own plans, and proceeds to use hypnotism, seduction, and criminality to turn the situation to his own ends. “When I watch The Hypnotist, I get a strange feeling, like when you’re a kid and you have a fever and you watch some old movie and it doesn’t make any sense to you because you’re sick, and the colors and sounds just kind of wash over you.”
Biography
film director
Anna Biller
Anna Biller has directed musical plays such as Princess Butterfly (2001) and The Lady Cat (1995) and has completed a number of short and middle-length films, such as Three Examples of Myself as Queen (1994), Fairy Ballet (1998), The Lady Cat ( 2001), The Hypnotist (2001) and the acclaimed horror-western short A Visit from the Incubus (2001). She is known for her use of film genres, humour, the burlesque and visual excess of her films, and for her colourful stylized sets and costumes, which she creates herself. She has a BA in art from UCLA and an MFA in art and film from CalArts. In 2006 she directed her first feature film, Viva, shown at Torino Film Festival together with a selection of other works from her filmography.
FILMOGRAFIA
Three Examples of Myself as Queen (cm, 1994), Fairy Ballet (cm, 1998), The Lady Cat (cm, 2001), A Visit from the Incubus (cm, 2001), The Hypnotist (mm, 2001), Viva (2006), The Love Witch (2016).
Cast
& Credits
regia, scenografia, costumi, montaggio/director, set design, costume design, film editor Anna Biller
sceneggiatura, produttore/screenplay, producer Jared Sanford
fotografia/director of photography M. David Mullen, Willian Roland
musica/music Claude Debussy, César Franck
suono/sound Stuart Sperling, Brian P. Linder, Dennis Grsezik, Eliot Jacobson
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Garth Petal (Dr Schadenfreude), Nicholas Gilhool (Charles), Ariana Grace (Beatrice), Jared Sanford (William), Win de Lugo (il giudice/judge), Les Biller (il maggiordomo/butler), Eleanor Kastner (Mrs Cooke), C. J. Morrow
produzione, distribuzione, vendita all’estero/production, distribution, world sales Anna Biller Productions
sceneggiatura, produttore/screenplay, producer Jared Sanford
fotografia/director of photography M. David Mullen, Willian Roland
musica/music Claude Debussy, César Franck
suono/sound Stuart Sperling, Brian P. Linder, Dennis Grsezik, Eliot Jacobson
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Garth Petal (Dr Schadenfreude), Nicholas Gilhool (Charles), Ariana Grace (Beatrice), Jared Sanford (William), Win de Lugo (il giudice/judge), Les Biller (il maggiordomo/butler), Eleanor Kastner (Mrs Cooke), C. J. Morrow
produzione, distribuzione, vendita all’estero/production, distribution, world sales Anna Biller Productions
