Le Collectionneur de cerveaux (1976)
- Directed by
- Michel Subiela
- Genre
- science fiction film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Rated
- 12
- Rating
- 6.7 of 10 from 6 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
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.
How it feels
A young pianist notices a chess-playing robot that moves exactly like her dead fiance. She investigates the robot's creator and discovers a disturbing secret.
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What happens
Le Collectionneur de cerveaux or (The Collector of Brains) is a French horror film (1976) based on George Langelaan's novel Les robots pensants (The Thinking Robots) starring Claude Jade. The young pianist Penny Vanderwood (Claude Jade) notices that a robot, created by the Count Saint-Germain (André Reybaz), plays chess in the same way as her deceased fiancé Robert Tournon. She convinces her friend Lewis Armeight (François Dunoyer) to open Robert's coffin, which is empty. Penny seeks to solve this mystery and embarks on the trail of the count... Fantastic story adapted from George Langelaan's "Thinking Robots" and which portrays the contemporary adventure of a chess-playing automaton. Alone on the stage of a provincial theatre, the famous pianist Penny Vanderwood practices for her next piano recital. A middle-aged man breaks into the theatre and observes the young woman. As soon as she finishes playing, he applauds at length: "I had long dreamed of inventing a pianist robot and when I saw you, I knew it would look like you." The man leaves Penny his business card: "Count of St. Germain, creator of automatons." The day after her recital, Penny reads in bed a flattering newspaper article dedicated to her. The girl's attention is drawn to another article announcing a championship that pits the best chess players in town against a mysterious and infallible robot presented by the Comte de Saint-Germain... Intrigued, Penny decides to extend her stay to attend the tournament... (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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