Deep Red
Profondo Rosso
Dario Argento
Marcus Daly is an American musician who teaches jazz at the conservatory in Turin. One evening he is witness to the murder of a woman who is a medium and who had just named a murderer at a parapsychology conference. Daly carries out his own investigation with the help of a young journalist.
With : David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi, Daria Nicolodi, Macha Méril
Screenplay : Dario Argento, Bernadino Zapponi
Image : Luigi Kuveiller
Sound : Mario Faraoni
Editing : Franco Fraticelli
Decors : Giuseppe Bassan
Music : Goblin
Screenplay : Dario Argento, Bernadino Zapponi
Image : Luigi Kuveiller
Sound : Mario Faraoni
Editing : Franco Fraticelli
Decors : Giuseppe Bassan
Music : Goblin
Production : Seda Spettacoli, Rizzoli Film
Distribution: IFC
Distribution: IFC
"My films talk about the unconscious. I want to talk about the things deep within us, the beauty of mankind, but also the ugliness" (D. Argento). "Every one of Argento's films is like an uninterrupted nightmare. The action takes place in a confined space and time, the plot comes from paranoia and schizophrenia. The urge to murder comes from the sudden image of a memory or a trauma repressed in the past" (G. P. Brunetta). Lino Capolicchio (the protagonist in Vittorio De Sica's Garden of the Finzi Contini) was initially slated to have the role, but was replaced by David Hemmings, whose performance in Antonioni's Blow Up deeply marked Dario Argento, who went on to choose him to play a stranger in Rome.