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A Quiet Place in the Country (1968)

A Quiet Place in the Country poster
Original title
Un tranquillo posto di campagna
Directed by
Elio Petri
Genre
drama film, horror film
Country
France, Italy
Runtime
1h 46m
Rated
16
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 86 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

An artist moves to a countryside villa with his girlfriend. He starts to experience frightening events that feel supernatural.

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What happens

A Quiet Place in the Country (Italian: Un tranquillo posto di campagna, French: Un coin tranquille à la campagne) is a 1968 giallo thriller film directed by Elio Petri, and starring Franco Nero and Vanessa Redgrave. Based on the short story "The Beckoning Fair One" by Oliver Onions, its plot follows an artist who relocates to a rural villa with his girlfriend, where he begins to experience increasingly terrifying, apparently supernatural events. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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