Shock Treatment / Island of the Damned
Synopsis
When the executive of the fashion industry Hélène Masson is dumped by her lover, she has a midlife crisis and her friend Gérôme Savignat advises her to spend vacation in the isolated rejuvenation clinic owned by Dr. Devilers and his partner Dr. Berbard. Hélène is welcomed by the happy clients and befriends the Portuguese employee João, who is an illegal immigrant, practicing her knowledge in Portuguese language with him. After the first injection of a formula based on animal blood, Hélène feels very well, But soon Gérôme can not afford to pay the treatment and commits suicide. Then João disappears and Dr. Devilers does not allow her to check-out the clinic. Hélène goes further in her investigation of the clinic and finds the secret of the rejuvenation formula of Dr. Devilers.
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Credits
Director (1)
Actors (18)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producers : AJ Films, Lira Films
- Foreign production company : Medusa
- Film exports/foreign sales : Tamasa Distribution
- French distribution : Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie (SNC)
Full credits (17)
- Executive Producers : Raymond Danon, Alain Jessua, Robert Dorfmann
- Adaptation : Roger Curel
- Screenwriter : Alain Jessua
- Director of Photography : Jacques Robin
- Music Composers : Alain Jessua, René Koering
- Assistant directors : Jean-Claude Ventura, Jacques Santi
- Editor : Hélène Plemiannikov
- Sound Recordist : William-Robert Sivel
- Associate Producer : René Thévenet
- Sound assistants : Jacques Bissières, Jacques Berger
- Assistant Operators : Giovanni Fiore Coltellacci, Daniel Leterrier
- Production managers : Alain Belmondo, Ralph Baum
- Assistant Editor : Catherine Dubeau
- Continuity supervisor : Sylvie Koechlin
- Stunt performer : Gérard Streiff
- Sound mixers : Alex Pront, Lucien Yvonnet
- Location Manager : Alain Pancrazi
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Thriller
- Themes : Insanity
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : Italy, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (Italy, France)
- Production year : 1972
- French release : 18/01/1973
- Runtime : 1 h 30 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 39963
- Visa issue date : 08/02/1990
- Approval : Unknown
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
- Audio format : Mono
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