Les Yeux sans visage
Georges Franju
In a rich Paris suburb, a famous surgeon, in despair over being responsible for disfiguring his daughter in a serious car accident, decides to do everything he can to give her her face back. With the help of his devoted assistant he kidnaps young blonde women and attempts to graft a face onto his daughter, beyond the all bounds of morality...
With : Pierre Brasseur, Edith Scob, Alida Valli, François Guérin, Claude Brasseur
Screenplay : Pierre Boileau, Pierre Gascar, Thomas Narcejac, Claude Sautet (d'après le roman homonyme de Jean Redon)
Image : Eugène Shüfftan
Sound : Antoine Archimbaud
Editing : Gilbert Natot
Music : Maurice Jarre
Screenplay : Pierre Boileau, Pierre Gascar, Thomas Narcejac, Claude Sautet (d'après le roman homonyme de Jean Redon)
Image : Eugène Shüfftan
Sound : Antoine Archimbaud
Editing : Gilbert Natot
Music : Maurice Jarre
Production : Champs-Elysées Productions, Lux Film
Distribution: Gaumont
Distribution: Gaumont
"I've always been attracted by images of the unusual, the peculiar... If, in Les yeux sans visage (Eyes Without a Face), I wanted Pierre Brasseur's character to be a doctor without any tics or odd habits, when the suggestion was made to make him a neurotic alcoholic, it was because his surgical operations were out of the ordinary. My thinking was that a visibly abnormal surgeon doing abnormal things was normal. But an apparently normal pillar of society doing abnormal things... now that's abnormal and worrying..." (G. Franju).