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Title: Death Laid an Egg (1968)
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| Gina Lollobrigida | ... | Anna | |
| Jean-Louis Trintignant | ... | Marco (as Jean Louis Trintignant) | |
| Ewa Aulin | ... | Gabrielle | |
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Jean Sobieski | ... | Mondaini |
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Renato Romano | ... | Luigi |
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Vittorio André | ||
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Giulio Donnini | ... | Hotel Manager |
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Biagio Pelligra | ... | Chemical operator |
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Cleofe Del Cile | ... | Prostitute #1 |
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Monica Millesi | ||
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Ugo Adinolfi | ||
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Conrad Andersen | ||
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Aldo Bonamano | ... | Police Inspector |
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Rina De Filippo | ||
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Livio Ferraro | ||
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A love triangle develops between three people who run a high tech chicken farm. It involves Anna (who owns the farm), her husband Marco (who kills prostitutes in his spare time) and Gabriella (the very beautiful secretary). Marco continues to kill as jealousy becomes more prevalent on the farm. Written by Count_Fistfuldollars
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ItalianRelease Date:
9 January 1968 (Italy) See more »Also Known As:
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Why do I have such a soft spot for this film? There is no story of any significance and there is a disconnect between what people say and do. Or seem to say and appear to do. Additionally, Jean-Louis Trintignant the main male character acts bored throughout. Except for his rather vigorous spats with prostitutes in a certain hotel room. On top of all that there is the setting - an ultra modern (for the time) indoor chicken farm where rather strange and disturbing goings on tend to interrupt the more usual giallo grapplings of the wife (lovely Gina Lollobrigida), the aforementioned husband (Trintignant) and the amazingly doll like and gorgeous Ewa Aulin (secretary would you believe, complete with pool side typewriter). Visually the film constantly stimulates with shape and colour that screams to the viewer that this is 1968. The beauty of the lights, the furnishings and the costumes plus the surreal and worrying hundreds of white chickens and the automated mechanisms all vie for our attention in such a way we barely notice the lack of coherent plot. The end is so sudden, it takes a few seconds to grasp that the action has more or less all taken place in the preceding ten minutes and interrupted our wallowing in the beauty colour and light that represents most of the films running time.