34° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
THINGS TO COME

LA MORT EN DIRECT

LA MORT EN DIRECT
by Bertrand Tavernier
Country: France, West Germany
Year: 1980
Duration: 130'


In the near future, a writer suffering from a serious illness which has left her only two months to live allows a TV station to film her agony. She later tries to escape but is found by a cameraman who has cameras implanted in his eyes. Based on a novel by David G. Compton and directed by Tavernier in 1980, a drama which anticipates television’s future tendencies for necrophilia. Prophetic and disturbing.

Biography

film director

Bertrand Tavernier

Bertrand Tavernier (Lyon, France, 1941), after abandoning his law studies, dedicated himself to film critique, writing for “Cahiers du cinema” and “Positif;” he then began his career as director and screenwriter. After producing three of his own films, The Clockmaker (1974), Let Joy Reign Supreme (1975) and The Judge and the Assassin (1976), he decided to found his own production company, Little Bear. He has made over thirty films which have won prestigious awards, including an Oscar for best original soundtrack for ‘Round Midnight (1986) and the Berlin Film Festival’s Golden Bear for Fresh Bait (1995).

FILMOGRAFIA

L’Horloger de Saint-Paul (L’orologiaio di St. Paul, 1974), Le Juge et l’Assassin (Il giudice e l’assassino, 1976), Une semaine de vacances (Una settimana di vacanza, 1980), Coup de torchon (Colpo di spugna, 1981), Un dimanche à la campagne (Una domenica in campagna, 1984), Autour de minuit (Round Midnight - A mezzanotte circa, 1986), La Passion Béatrice (Quarto comandamento, 1987), La vie et rien d’autre (La vita e niente altro, 1989), Daddy nostalgie (id., 1990), L. 627 (Legge 627, 1992), L’appât (L’esca, 1995), Capitaine Conan (Capitan Conan, 1996), Holy Lola (La piccola Lola, 2004), In the Electric Mist (L’occhio del ciclone - In the Electric Mist, 2009).

Cast

& Credits

regia/director
Bertrand Tavernier
soggetto/story
dal romanzo/from the novel The Unsleeping Eye di/by David G. Compton
sceneggiatura/screenplay
David Rayfiel, Bertrand Tavernier
fotografia/cinematography
Pierre-William Glenn
montaggio/film editing
Michael Ellis, Armand Psenny
scenografia/production design
Anthony Pratt
musica/music
Antoine Duhamel
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Romy Schneider (Katherine Mortenhoe), Harvey Keitel (Roddy), Harry Dean Stanton (Vincent Ferriman), Thérèse Liotard (Tracey), Max von Sydow (Gerald Mortenhoe)
produttori/producers
Elie Kfouri, Bertrand Tavernier
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