Et Mourir De Plaisir

AKA's:

Blood And Roses / Rosas De Sangue / Sangue E A Rosa, O / Sangue E La Rosa, Il / To Die With Pleasure / Und Vor Lust Zu Sterben

Release date:	1960 France/Italy
Running time:	74' (cover 74' / France 87') - Source: VHS NTSC
Rating:	Germ.: 16; US: NR
Main Crew:	Director: Roger Vadim (And God Created Woman 1988 & 1956; Barbarella 1968; The                Game Is Over 1966) Producer: Documento / Les Films EGE Score: Jean Prodromides Writer: Roger Vadim / Roger Vailland / Claude Martin / Claude Brule (based on J.             Sheridan Le Fanu's novel "Carmilla") Director of photography: Claude Renoir
Cast:	Use the dropdown menu to see the full cast Mel Ferrer / Leopoldo Von Karnstein Elsa Martinelli / Georgia Monteverdi Annette Vadim-Stroyberg / Carmilla Von Karnstein Rene-Jean Chauffard / Dr. Verari Marc Allegret / Judge Monteverdi Alberto Bonucci / Carlo Ruggieri Serge Marquand / Guiseppe Gabriella Farinon / Lisa Renato Speziali / Guido Naldi Edith Arlene / The Cook Gianni Di Benedetto / Police Marshall Nathalie LeForet / Marie
Summary:	What can a gorgeous vampire do when the nobleman she adores is engaged to another? Like lovestruck romantics throughout the ages, she must folow her heart. And like the fiendish undead of eternity, she must follow her bloodlust. By taking over the body of the aristocrat's fiancee, she can become his bride! Roger Vadim (And God Created Woman ; Barbarella ) directs "BLOOD AND ROSES", a refined retelling of the vampire legend that combines old-world elegance, otherworld dread and the blind desperation of lovers (and vampires) to assert themselves. Mel Ferrer (Lili ), Elsa Martinelli (Hatari ) and Annette Vadim headline this shocker that withers the bloom of the rose... and taints it with the blood of eternal terror.
Note:	- This is the second film (although an extremely loose modernized version) of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's "Carmilla" (previously filmed by Carl Theodor Dreyer: Vampyr, 1932); other filmic adaptations include: Hammer's Lust For A Vampire (1970) and Twins Of Evil (1971); The Blood Spattered Bride (1972) and Carmilla (1989). - In its day it was quite controversial for its explicit lesbianism; although the heavily edited American release lost the major lesbian content by excising 13 minutes of footage. Rare photos exist of a censored image (a one-eyed protoplasmic vampire feasting on Elsa Martinelli's torso). - There's a sudden switch to black-and-white (with the surgeon's gloves are all tinted blood red) during the fevre dream sequence. - Roger Vadim insisted that it was not a vampire film. - Parts of the movie were shot on the grounds of the Emperor Hadrian's villa at Tivoli, Italy.
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