A Quiet Place in the Country (1968)

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

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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