The Severed Heads (1957)
21m
Running Time
March 31, 1957Release Date
Plot.
A short mime adaptation of a Thomas Mann story about a Parisian urchin who makes her living selling human heads. Lost for nearly 50 years, the movie was found in 2006 by the son of Ruth Michelly and Saul Gilbert when he found it in his mom's attic in Munich.
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Cast & Crew.
Raymond Devos
Denise Brossot
Rolande Polya
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Director / Writer
Saul Gilbert
Editor / Producer / Director
Jean-Marie Proslier
Margot Loyola
Michel Orphelin
Jean Claude Sergent
François Perrot
Théo Lesoualc'h
Micheline Beauchemin
(uncredited)
Ruth Michelly
(uncredited) / Costume Design / Director
Edgar Bischoff
Original Music Composer
Thomas Mann
Novel
Solange Morlaive
Media.
Details.
Release DateMarch 31, 1957
Original NameLa cravate
StatusReleased
Running Time21m
Genres
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Wiki.
Les têtes interverties, also known as La cravate, The Transposed Heads and The Severed Heads, is a 1957 French short film written and directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky, Saul Gilbert, and Ruth Michelly. Shot between 1953 and 1957, the film is a mime adaptation of Thomas Mann's 1940 novella The Transposed Heads (Die vertauschten Köpfe). The film stars surreal humorist Raymond Devos as well as Jodorowsky himself.
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