Death Rite (1976)
- 1976
- ·94 min
Lors d'un voyage dans une station balnéaire en Tunisie, le magicien et clairvoyant Professeur Vestar se lie d'amitié avec le millionnaire oisif Edouard Vangard et lui propose de le conduire dans sa voiture.
Vestar révèle à.
- Acteurs
- Franco Nero·Gert Fröbe·Jean Rochefort·Stefania Sandrelli
- Réalisé par
- Claude Chabrol
- Genre
- Drama·Thriller
- Langue
- French
- Pays
- France·Italy·West Germany
- Director
- Claude Chabrol
First of all, "Death Rite" has great cult value: Claude Chabrol + Franco Nero + Goldfinger (i.e.
After "les noces rouges" (1973) , Chabrol's second period of barren inspiration began.Although adapted from a Frederic Dard novel (Robert Hossein's best film was a Dard novel: "Toi le Venin" ),"Les Magiciens " is a mediocre movie ,which was probably made to combine business with pleasure ( holidays in Tunisia in a luxury hotel).
While traveling to a resort in Tunisia, the magician and clairvoyant Professor Vestar (Gert Fröbe) befriends the idle millionaire Edouard Vangard (Jean Rochefort) in his car. Vestar discloses to Edouard that he had had a premonition of a woman being murdered in a desert area.
