The inspiration, as the title tells, was Les Chants de Maldoror (The Songs of Maldoror). Cavallone followed only loosely the poem, interpolating some of its most outrageous content within the story of a film director, Paolo (Gianni Garko) who’s undergoing a deep personal crisis. The first part (which producer Giuseppe Tortorella labelled "mythological porn") is set in Italy, as Marco is working on a film called Maldoror, and focuses on his tormented relationship with a married woman, Monica (Jane Avril). According to the script, it was filled with excessive and cruel images, extracts from the film-within-a-film which were liberally spliced within the plot, and in their uneasiness somehow predated Pasolini’s Salò.
Alberto Cavallone
Director, Writer
Comte de Lautréamont
Writer
Inga Alexandrova
Tony Askin
Martial Boschero
L'operatore
Sherry Buchanan
La ragazza
Gianni Garko
Il regista
Jack La Cayenne
Maria Pia Luzi
Monica
Piero Mazzinghi
Diego Michelotti
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