Frankenstein's monster gropes towards the awareness that his mind is a universe; Attila, naked on a white horse, liberates his people from their ignominy; the ultra-caustic Viva bemoans the frustrations of married life and drifts into the elegiac persona of the Bloody Countess Bathory; Louis Waldon is a hip American tourist searching for the (missing) Mona Lisa.
Direction
Brocani treats history like a collage he set on fire.
Costume
Attila. Naked. White horse. That's the costume budget.
Director
Franco Brocani
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released at the bleeding edge of European avant-garde cinema, when 'underground' meant Warhol's Factory regulars doing high-literary cosplay. Viva was literally Warhol's superstar.
Pierre Clémenti's Attila reportedly improvised much of his horse-bound liberation monologue while genuinely freezing nude on location. Method acting as hypothermia.
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