SCREENING
- Where: Palazzo Fruscione / Sala Vittorio De Sica
- When: 20/12/2019, h 24:00
| Original title | Il mulino delle donne di pietra |
| Direction | Giorgio Ferroni |
| Year | 1960 |
| Nation | Italy, France |
| Length | 94` |
| Script | Giorgio Ferroni, Remigio Del Grosso |
| Screenplay | Remigio Del Grosso, Ugo Liberatore, Giorgio Stegani, Giorgio Ferroni |
| Cinematography | Pier Ludovico Pavoni |
| Editing | Antonietta Zita |
| Music | Carlo Innocenzi |
| Set design | Arrigo Equini |
| Production | Wanguard Film |
| Distribution | Cino Del Duca |
| Cast | Pierre Brice, Scilla Gabe,l Dany Carrel, Wolfgang Preiss, Liana Orfei, Herbert Böhme, Marco Guglielmi, Alberto Archetti, Olga Solbelli |
SINOPSYS
The young scholar Hans is entrusted with the task of collecting data for a monograph on Dutch folk art. During this research he meets Wahl, a well-known sculptor and teacher at the Academy of Amsterdam, owner of a famous eighteenth-century music box. It is a gigantic machine, derived from the mechanism of an old mill, in which some statues, depicting famous heroines of history, move in a kind of macabre dance. In Wahl’s house, Hans meets Helfi, the sculptor’s daughter. One night Helfi dies before Hans’s eyes. The boy runs away scared, but when he returns to the villa, he must realize that everything is calm and normal. When he hears Helfi’s voice and sees her appear, he becomes frightened, but Wahl treats him like an exalted and drives him away from home. The young man finds comfort in the friendship of Raab and Liselotte, a student of Wahl. When this last one disappears too, the terrible truth begins to make its way into Hans.