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FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN by Paul Morissey Prima proiezione ANDY WARHOL americana presents JOE DALLESANDRO, MONIQUE VAN VOOREN, UDO KIER 28 marzo 1974 in FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN introducing ARNO JUERGING, DALILA DI LAZZARO, SRDJAN ZELENOVIC with NICOLETTA ELMI, MARCO LIOFREDI LIU BOSISIO, FIORELLA MASSELLI CRISTINA GAIONI, ROSITA TOROSH CARLA MANCINI, IMELDE MARANI protography LUIGI KUVEILLER production designer ENRICO JOB production manager MARA BLASETTI a.o.d.c. music composed and conducted by CLAUDIO GIZZI Recorded and published by (add RCA trademark) editors FRANCA SILVI, JED JOHNSON made in CINECITTÀ STUDIOS sound INTERNATIONAL RECORDING STUDIOS, ROME processing LV by LUCIANO VITTORI La baronessa “Il barone Frankenstein vuole dare vita a una razza perfetta facendo accop- “Baron Frankenstein wants to give life to a perfect race by making two of his piare due sue creature, che però non ne vogliono sapere. Umorismo macabro creations mate, but they don’t want to know. Macabre humour and a taste for the e gusto dell’assurdo in scenografie art-decò” (Dizionario dei film, a cura di absurd in an Art Deco set” (Dizionario dei film, ed. Paolo Mereghetti, Baldini e Paolo Mereghetti, Baldini e Castoldi, 1993). Castoldi, 1993). “Il professor Frankenstein ha costruito una donna con alcuni resti umani e si “Professor Frankenstein has constructed a woman from some human remains, and ripromette di generare con lo stesso metodo un uomo che si dovrà accoppia- he proposes to generate a man using the same method, who will mate with her to re con lei per dare inizio a una nuova specie. L’esperimento riesce, ma la testa give rise to a new species.The experiment is a success, but the monster’s head is that del mostro appartiene a un uomo con aspirazioni religiose che invece di far of a man with religious aspirations who, instead of making love, kills his creators” l’amore uccide i suoi creatori” (Dizionario dei film, a cura di Pino Farinotti, (Dizionario dei Film, ed. Pino Farinotti, Sugarco Edizioni, 1990). Sugarco Edizioni, 1990). 27.

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