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Death Laid an Egg

La morte ha fatto l'uovo

France, Italy

1968

86 Min
Color
1.85:1
Italian
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DIR Giulio Questi

PROD Franco Marras

SCR Franco Arcalli, Giulio Questi

DP Dario Di Palma

CAST Gina Lollobrigida, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ewa Aulin, Jean Sobieski, Renato Romano, Vittorio André, Giulio Donnini, Biagio Pelligra, Aldo Bonamano, Cleofe Del Cile

ED Franco Arcalli

PROD DES Alfredo Di Santo

MUSIC Bruno Maderna

SOUND Eugenio Rondani

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Giulio Questi

Giulio Questi (born 18 March 1924 in Bergamo) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. Questi wrote short stories and filmed several documentaries before he started as assistant director and script writer in the movie business. He is best known for the film Django Kill! (If You Live Shoot!). —Wikipedia 

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Konrad Szlendak

28Dec11

I kinda enjoyed watching this rare giallo flick. It's slightly worse than "Una sull'altra", but better than "L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo"... let's say. It has tight narration and great moments when we're hit with fast editing serving main character's memories on a plate. Definitely recommended!

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Christopher Smith

2Dec11

Really strange, chicken-centric giallo melodrama. Stylishly shot and edited with a marathon of preposterous plot twists, overwrought performances, and some jarring moments of bizarre dark humor. A whole lot of fun for cult movie fans, and definitely a memorable entry to its genre. Bruno Maderna's unusual score gets pretty grating, though.

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Zissou

14Jul11

Great Kim Arcalli's job

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gea*

20May10

So strange yet realistic? Women don't talk like that but they do think like that, and the mutant chickens..I heard stories about KFC...

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Two Italian metaphysical thrillers blur reality and fantasy and waft around the edges of the giallo style.

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