Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Ingrid Thulin | ... | Jessica | |
Jean Sorel | ... | Gregory Moore | |
Mario Adorf | ... | Jacques Versain | |
Barbara Bach | ... | Mira Svoboda | |
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Fabijan Sovagovic | ... | Professor Karting (as Fabian Sovagovic) |
José Quaglio | ... | Valinski | |
Relja Basic | ... | Ivan | |
Piero Vida | ... | Kommissar Kierkoff | |
Daniele Dublino | ... | Doctor | |
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Sven Lasta | ... | Pravski - Blind Man |
Luciano Catenacci | ... | Morgue Employee | |
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Michaela Martin | ... | Girl with Jacques (as Micaela Martin) |
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Vjenceslav Kapural | ... | Librarian |
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Jürgen Drews | ... | Street Singer |
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Semka Sokolovic-Bertok | ... | Nastassja - Gregory's Neighbor (as Semka Sokolovic) |
Greg Moore, an American journalist visiting Prague with his girlfriend Mira is found dead. However, he's actually only temporarily paralyzed, but the coroner fails to realize this and proceeds to prepare him for the autopsy. While Moore awaits his doom, he tries to recollect what has happened to him. It all starts when his girl disappears. He asks his friend, a local journalist, for help. They discover that this was just the latest in a series of disappearances of young pretty girls in the area. Their investigation leads them to a strange high profile private club, whose affluent members practice odd ritualistic orgies and bizarre dark rites.
Hardly ever a movie got me clinging to my chair so much till literally the last seconds! "Malastrana" tells the story of a journalist (Jean Sorel) in Prague. He lies helplessly in a hospital and remembers in flashbacks how his girlfriend (young Barbara Bach) disappeared. Since the police was not helpful, he tried to find clues what has happened to her. Abduction, murder, or did she just run away?
In true giallo tradition, this is a movie about bizarre killings employing an eccentric visual style, dark and mysterious, but "Malastrana" is more than that. In a dialogue which was cut from the original German version (restored for the DVD release 2006), an old man bitterly sums up how the rich and powerful will always find somebody else to die for them, from the soldier on the battlefield to the... well, butterflies. You don't understand my last remark, I guess. You will when you watch this movie. Hush! No more.