Maldoror

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

October 18, 1977

Original language

English

Production

Olympia Film

Cast

Sherry Buchanan,Jack La Cayenne,Tony Askin,Maria Pia Luzi,Inga Alexandrova,Gianni Garko,Alena Penz,Piero Mazzinghi,Martial Boschero,Diego Michelotti

Director

Alberto Cavallone

Writer

Comte de Lautréamont,Alberto Cavallone

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0230495