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Lisbeth Hummel
Lisbeth Hummel (born 1952 in Copenhagen) is a Danish film actress. She is known for the controversial 1975 film '' La Bête'', directed by Walerian Borowczyk, and '' La bella e la bestia'' and ''Dangerous Women'', both directed by her husband by Johan Melle, accessed 5 May 2014 Luigi Russo. She is now working as an artist, and lives in and Italy
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Copenhagen
Copenhagen ( ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the Urban area of Copenhagen, urban area. The city is situated on the islands of Zealand and Amager, separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the Øresund strait. The Øresund Bridge connects the two cities by rail and road. Originally a Vikings, Viking fishing village established in the 10th century in the vicinity of what is now Gammel Strand, Copenhagen became the capital of Denmark in the early 15th century. During the 16th century, the city served as the ''de facto'' capital of the Kalmar Union and the seat of the Union's monarchy, which governed most of the modern-day Nordic countries, Nordic region as part of a Danish confederation with Sweden and Norway. The city flourished as the cultural and economic centre of Scandinavia during the Renaissance. By the 17th century, it had become a regional centre of power, serving as the heart of the Danish government and Military history ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
La Bête (film)
''The Beast'' () is a 1975 French erotic horror film written, edited, and directed by Walerian Borowczyk. Although sometimes compared with ''Beauty and the Beast'', there are no parallels in the plot except that it features the relationship between a beast (monster) and a woman. The film was noted for its explicit sexual content, including teratophilia (attraction to monsters), upon its initial release. It has become a cult film. A loose adaptation of the novella '' Lokis'' by Prosper Mérimée was originally conceived in 1972 as a film on its own. However, Borowczyk later rendered ''Lokis'' as a story () in '' Immoral Tales'' (1974), which was envisaged to be a film of six stories. After ''Immoral Tales'' was remastered as a film of four stories, the footage became the dream sequence of ''The Beast''. Plot Businessman Philip Broadhurst dies and leaves his estate to his daughter, Lucy, on the condition that she marries Mathurin, Marquis Pierre de l'Esperance's son, within six m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Walerian Borowczyk
Walerian Borowczyk (21 October 1923 – 3 February 2006) was a Polish film director described by film critics as a "genius who also happened to be a pornographer". He directed 40 films between 1946 and 1988. Borowczyk settled in Paris in 1959. As a film director, he worked mainly in France.Margalit FoxWalerian Borowczyk, The New York Times 2006 obituary./ref> Biography Born in Kwilcz near Poznań, Borowczyk studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, then devoted himself to painting and lithography, including the creation of posters for the film, cinema, which earned him a national prize in 1953. His early films were Surrealism, surreal animations, some only a few seconds long, including several comic abecedarium, abecedaria. His most acclaimed early films were ''Był sobie raz'' (Time Upon a Once) (1957) and ''Dom (film), Dom'' (House) (1958, with Jan Lenica). In 1959, Borowczyk immigrated to France and settled in Paris. He worked with Chris Marker for ''Les Astr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
