Cardillac (1969)

Directed by

Edgar Reitz

Genre

drama film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 37m

Rated

16

Rating

4.5 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A goldsmith becomes so obsessed with his craft that he kills his customers. This West German film is a modern take on an E. T. A. Hoffmann story.

slow-burntensebroodingobsessivedarkmelancholicpsychologicalrestrained

What happens

Cardillac is a 1969 West German drama film directed by Edgar Reitz, starring Hans-Christian Blech and Catana Cayetano. It tells the story of a goldsmith who is so obsessed with his own craft that he murders his customers. The film is a modern adaptation of E. T. A. Hoffmann's novella Mademoiselle de Scuderi. (Composer Paul Hindemith also used the novella as the basis of his 1926 opera Cardillac.) (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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