Les yeux sans visage = Eyes without a face / directed by Georges Franju ; screenplay adaptation by writers Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac.
A plastic surgeon, holed up in a Paris mansion, is obsessively slicing off the faces of kidnapped women and grafting the flayed skin onto the rotting countenance of his beloved young daughter, disfigured in an automobile accident.
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| Language: | French English |
| Language of the Original: |
French |
| Language and/or Writing System: |
In French with English subtitles. |
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[Chicago, Ill.] :
Home Vision Entertainment,
[2004]
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| Series: | Criterion collection.
Classic collection (Chicago, Ill.) Rovi Media Collection. Movies. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Variant Title: |
Eyes without a face. [Parallel title] |
| Format: | Video DVD |
| Summary: |
A plastic surgeon, holed up in a Paris mansion, is obsessively slicing off the faces of kidnapped women and grafting the flayed skin onto the rotting countenance of his beloved young daughter, disfigured in an automobile accident. |
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| Note: | Title from container. Originally released as a motion picture in 1959. Special features include Blood of the beasts, Georges Franju's 1949 short documentary about the slaughterhouses of Paris; archival interviews with Franju on horror, cinema, and the making of Blood of the beasts; excerpt from Les grands-pères du crime; theatrical trailers, and stills gallery of rare production photos and promotional material. Videorecording. |
| Call Number: | CL4 D0044445 VideoDVD PN1995.9.F67 Y94 2004 VideoDVD |
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MPAA rating: Not rated. |
| ISBN: | 0780028880 |
| System Details: | DVD, region 1, widescreen (1.66:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono. |
| Cast: |
Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Edith Scob. |