Col cuore in gola

Col cuore in gola
Directed by Tinto Brass
Screenplay by
Based on Il sepolcro di carta
by Sergio Donati
Starring
Music by Armando Trovajoli[1]
Cinematography Silvano Ippoliti[1]
Edited by Tinto Brass[1]
Production
companies
  • Panda
  • Les Films Corona[1]
Release dates
  • 1967 (1967) (Italy)
Running time
107 minutes[1]
Country
  • Italy
  • France[1]

Col cuore in gola is a 1967 giallo film directed by Tinto Brass. It is loosely based on the novel Il sepolcro di carta by Sergio Donati. The film used storyboards from Guido Crepax.

Cast

Ewa Aulin in the film

Production

Col cuore in gola was adapated from the paperback novel Il sepolcro di carta (1955) by Sergio Donati.[2] Brass noted he was not very fond of the novel, and his producers wanted Jean-Louis Trintignant as the lead.[2] On meeting Trintignant, he told him a different story than that of the novel which lead him to accept the role.[2] Brass had then sent over the actul script stating that he had changed his mind.[2]

Brass did later change the plot, moving the story location from Rome to London noting that "London represented what Paris had represented before it: the place of transgressiona nd freedom. Lots of things were happening. The Beatles were only one of them. It was Europe's liveliest urban center."[2] Brass expressed that he "wanted to make a film in ideograms-like in Chinese writing, where a symbol indicates a whole concept. So I did not film a horse but an eye, or a spur. The characters eem two-dimension, as in a comic."[2] In 1966 director Tinto Brass contacted Guido Crepax to draw the storyboards for the Cuol cuore in gola.[2] Crepax created color storyboards even though he was used to working in black-and-white.[2] For the cinematographer, Brass noted that his previous director of photography Bruno Barcarol had died and he needed a new one.[3][4] Brass later chose Silvano Ippoliti as he reminded him a bit of Barcarol.[4]

Release

The film was released in Italy in 1967 where it was not a commercial success.[1][4] The film was shown in the United States in Portland, Oregon on 7 September 1969.[5]

The film was released in the United States by the label Cult Epics.[4]

See also

References

Footnotes

Sources

  • Curti, Roberto (2016). Diabolika: Supercriminals, Superheroes and the Comic Book Universe in Italian Cinema. Midnight Marquee Press. ISBN 978-1-936168-60-6. 



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