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Actors: Jean Sorel, Ingrid Thulin, Mario Adorf, Barbara Bach
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Short Night of the Glass Dolls |
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SHORT NIGHT OF THE GLASS DOLLS (Malastrana)is the first movie of Italian director Aldo Lado he directed in 1971.
Prag. Jean Sorel is an American journalist who has been found in a coma in the streets of the city. As the morgue doctors declare him dead, Sorel remembers the events that have lead him there. As he was about to quit Prag for London a few days before, his girl-friend Barbara Bach suddenly disappeared. In the company of his fellow journalists Ingrid Thulin and Mario Adorf, he tried to understand the reasons for this disappearance. The local police didn't help him in his quest that made him discover a strange organization : the club 99.
Really frightening. A masterpiece.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Short Night of the Glass Dolls |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 10%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 60%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Crime story:
- criminal kidnappers
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- journalist
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- missing body parts/abilities
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavy
Unclothed?
- buttocks and chest
How much in movie?
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- fight for survival
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Eastern Europe
City?
Yes
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
- church/synagogue
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- in awe
How many deaths in film?
- 3-4
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- orgies
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- seeing nude male butt
- seeing full frontal--women
Kind of violence:
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- dropped from large heights
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
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