Release Date

18 Oct, 1977

Runtime

01:40: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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.

Original Title

Maldoror

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Actors

Inga Alexandrova

Tony Askin

Martial Boschero

Sherry Buchanan

Gianni Garko

Jack La Cayenne

Maria Pia Luzi

Piero Mazzinghi

Diego Michelotti

Alena Penz

Crew

Alberto Cavallone

Comte de Lautréamont

Alberto Cavallone