Roger Vadim's segment "Metzengerstein" was filmed just after Vadim had completed shooting on his previous movie Barbarella, which also starred Jane Fonda. The final directors involved eventually became Federico Fellini, Roger Vadim and Louis Malle. The script, written in English by Welles and Oja Kodar, is in the Filmmuseum München collection. Welles withdrew in September 1967 and was replaced by Fellini. Orson Welles would direct one segment based on both " Masque of the Red Death" and " The Cask of Amontillado". Initial directors announced to work on the film included Luchino Visconti, Claude Chabrol, Joseph Losey and Orson Welles. Omnibus films were popular in Europe in the 1960s so producers Alberto Grimaldi and Raymond Eger developed the idea of film anthology influenced by the work of Edgar Allan Poe. Spirits of the Dead was based on the work of Edgar Allan Poe. The segment is 43 minutes long and features 'Ruby' by Ray Charles as well as the music of Nino Rota. The girl from his vision picks up his severed head and the sun rises. The Ferrari disappears, and we then see a view of roadway with a thick wire across it, dripping with blood, suggesting Dammit has been decapitated. He gets into his car and speeds toward the void.
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Across the ravine, he sees a vision of the little girl with a ball (whom he has earlier identified, in a TV interview, as his idea of the Devil). Lost outside of Rome, Dammit eventually crashes into a work zone and comes to a stop before the site of a collapsed bridge. He races around the city, where he sees what appear to be fake people in the streets. Dammit is forced to make a speech, then leaves and takes delivery of his promised Ferrari. A stunning woman (Antonia Pietrosi) comforts him, saying she will always be at his side if he chooses. While at a film award ceremony, he gets drunk and appears to be slowly losing his mind. Dammit begins to have unexpected visions of a macabre girl with a white ball. He agrees to work on a film, to be shot in Rome, for which he will be given a brand new Ferrari as a bonus incentive. After making his confession, Wilson commits suicide by jumping from the tower of "Palazzo della Ragione", but when seen his corpse is transfixed by the same dagger.įormer Shakespearean actor Toby Dammit (Terence Stamp) is losing his acting career to alcoholism. In a rage, the protagonist Wilson stabs the other to death with a dagger. After playing cards all night against the courtesan Giuseppina (Brigitte Bardot), his doppelgänger, also named William Wilson, convinces people that Wilson has cheated. Wilson then relates the story of his cruel ways throughout his life. In the early 19th century when Northern Italy is under Austrian rule, an army officer named William Wilson (Alain Delon) rushes to confess to a priest (in a church of the "Città alta" of Bergamo) that he has committed murder. During a thunderstorm, Frederique is carried off by the spooked horse into a fire caused by lightning that has struck. Becoming obsessed with it, she orders its repair. She notices at one point that a damaged tapestry depicts a horse eerily similar to the one that she has just taken in. The horse is very wild and Frederique takes it upon herself to tame it.
One black horse somehow escapes and makes its way to the Metzengerstein castle. Wilhelm is killed attempting to save his prized horses. His rejection infuriates Frederique and she sets his stables on fire. She becomes enamoured with Wilhelm, but he rejects her for her wicked ways. While in the forest, her leg is caught in a trap and she is freed by her cousin and neighbour Baron Wilhelm (Peter Fonda), whom she has never met because of a long-standing family feud.
Plot summary 'Metzengerstein' segment Īt the age of 22, Countess Frederique (Jane Fonda) inherits the Metzengerstein estate and lives a life of promiscuity and debauchery.
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