Footprints on the Moon

Le orme

Italy

1975

96 Min

Color, Black and White

Italian

Currently 4.0/5 Stars.
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SCR Luigi Bazzoni, Mario Fanelli

CAST Florinda Bolkan, Peter McEnery, Nicoletta Elmi, Caterina Boratto, John Karlsen, Klaus Kinski, Ida Galli, Lila Kedrova

SOUND Renato Cadueri, Pietro Spadoni

Synopsis

Alice Cespi (Florinda Bolkan) begins to see her life fall apart due to strange memories from childhood when she was forced to watch a film called “Footprints on the Moon” involving an unethical experiment in leaving astronauts stranded on the moon’s surface. Alice has terrible dreams and begins to become addicted to tranquilizers. The drugs and her deteriorating mental condition cause her to miss work and she is eventually fired, whereupon she travels to a dilapidated former tourist area called Garma after receiving a mysterious postcard. There, she runs into a girl named Paula Burton (Nicoletta Elmi), who tells her that she looks exactly like another woman, Nicole, currently staying at the faded resort. Alice then encounters a series of strange people and circumstances, all leading her closer to unlocking the possibly deadly mystery. –Wikipedia

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Diddy

9Oct11

This one of the best films I've ever seen! Does somebody know in which area this film was shot (a fictional place Garma is shown in the film)?

Tugba Keles

14Jan12

Diddy, This film was shot partly in İstanbul, Turkey. The first time Florinda Bolkan came to Garma in a steamboat station is Ortakoy in İstanbul. And she walks around Sultanahmet and historical mosques. Also the building in the Garma photo in the movie is a building in Sultanahmet used for land registry.
Tugba Keles

14Jan12

Also from here you can see them; http://giallofordummies.blogspot.com/2010/06/le-orme-aka-footprints-on-moon-1975.html#more
Diddy

14Jan12

Many thanks for providing this info! I definitely have to visit Istanbul one day then!

Ryan Clark

4Sep11

This isn't really a giallo even though it is often lumped in with them. It's actually much more complex and has a wonderful performance from Florinda Bolkan. The film doesn't make a lot of sense, but I enjoyed the weird atmosphere.

ExperimentoFilm

23Jun11

The only giallo-style movie to be influenced by both DEATH IN VENICE and SOLARIS.

Max Slobodin

21Sep10

A proper review is forthcoming in the service of this most recondite, most perturbing celluloidal peregrination. This is science fiction par excellence, where astral projections of the mind are either indeterminate phantasms or the electromagnetic impedimenta of emotion. What troubles is not what is known, but what sort of topography persists unseen like so much dark matter. Hic sunt dracones...