Henri-George Clouzot's Inferno
2009 · Documentary · 102 min. · France
In 1963, Clouzot began work on a project called "L'Enfer", a tale of jealousy that leads to madness, and the filmmaker was promised all the time and resources he needed for the picture. However, while the director was meticulously prepared when shooting began, after only three weeks the production was halted and never resumed. Filmmakers Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea try to answer the question of what happened to a project so full of promise, a documentary which looks into the shadowy history of this lost film. Including interviews with members of the cast and crew (among them production assistant Costa-Gavras) and excerpts from the surviving footage (seen by the public for the first time here), the film tells the tale of how a great director ran afoul of his own demons while making a movie about a troubled man. In 1992 Clouzot's widow sold the script to Claude Chabrol who made the movie as L'enfer (1994).
Direction Serge Bromberg · Ruxandra Medrea
Cast H.G. Clouzot · Romy Schneider · Serge Reggiani · Costa-Gavras · William Lubtchansky · Bérénice Bejo · Jacques Gamblin · Dany Carrel · Mario David · Jean-Claude Bercq · André Luguet · Catherine Allegret · Maurice Garrel · Barbara Sommers · Maurice Teynac · Henri Virlojeux · Blanchette Brunoy · Burt Lancaster
Soundtrack Bruno Alexiu
Screenplay Serge Bromberg
Cinematography Jérôme Krumenacker · Irina Lubtchansky
Original title L'enfer d'Henri-Georges Clouzot (Henri-George Clouzot's Inferno)
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