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

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The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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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.

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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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