The Blood Rose
Synopsis
Frederick Lansac is a botanist and portraitist who runs a beauty salon. Lansac meets and falls in love with Anne at a dress ball and the two get married. The two move into Lansac's home but at one of Lansac's portrait exhibitions, Anne's face is pushed into a bonfire from a jealous woman which horribly scars Anne's face. Anne isolates herself in her home where she slowly becomes less mentally stable as well as having erotic dreams about her nurse Agnès. Lansace learns that one of his clients, Dr. Rohmer is a former plastic surgeon who has halted from practising medicine and currently only performs plastic surgery on criminals. Lansac blackmails Rohmer into performing a grafting surgery on his wife to restore her former beauty. Lansac tricks two woman to of his clients to his home to become the donors for his wife's new face but the two die in the process. Barbara (Elizabeth Tessier), the sister of Anne's former nurse comes to the chateau to look for her sibling, but finds Anne who demands to have her face. Barbra manages to escape and Rohmer commits suicide. Realizing how far his wife has grown into madness, Lansace has his wife killed by his servants and then gives himself up to the police.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (12)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Transatlantic Production
- Film exports/foreign sales : The Bureau Sales
- French distributors : Océanic Films, Compagnie Française de Distribution Cinématographique (CFDC)
Full credits (11)
- Executive Producer : Edgar Oppenheimer
- Adaptation : Claude Mulot, Edgar Oppenheimer, Jean Larriaga
- Screenwriter : Claude Mulot
- Dialogue Writer : Claude Mulot
- Director of Photography : Roger Fellous
- Music Composer : Jean-Pierre Dorsay
- Assistant Director : Jean Larriaga
- Assistant Operator : Jacques Labesse
- Camera Operator : Jacques Assuerus
- Production Manager : Georges Dybman
- Continuity supervisor : Françoise Lehérissey
Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Fantasy
- Themes : Eroticism
- Production language : French
- Production country : France (100.0%)
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1970
- French release : 25/09/1970
- Runtime : 1 h 34 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 35682
- Visa issue date : 14/04/1970
- Approval : Unknown
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
- Audio format : Mono
