Short Night of Glass Dolls

1971 [ITALIAN]

Action / Horror / Mystery

12
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 4182 4.2K

prague, czech republic disappearance whodunit giallo

Plot summary

An American journalist in Prague searches for his girlfriend who has suddenly disappeared.

Director

Aldo Lado Photo
Aldo Lado

Top cast

Barbara Bach Photo
Barbara Bach as Mira Svoboda
Veriano Ginesi Photo
Veriano Ginesi as Dead Girl's Father
Mario Adorf Photo
Mario Adorf as Jacques Versain
Jean Sorel Photo
Jean Sorel as Gregory Moore
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889.35 MB
1280*546
Italian 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 5
1.61 GB
1920*820
Italian 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 15
4.38 GB
3840*2160
Italian 2.0
NR
Subtitles it  
23.976 fps
N/A
Seeds 3

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by unbrokenmetal 8 / 10

Tension till the last seconds

Hardly ever a movie got me clinging to my chair so much till literally the last seconds! "Malastrana" tells the story of a journalist (Jean Sorel) in Prague. He lies helplessly in a hospital and remembers in flashbacks how his girlfriend (young Barbara Bach) disappeared. Since the police was not helpful, he tried to find clues what has happened to her. Abduction, murder, or did she just run away? In true giallo tradition, this is a movie about bizarre killings employing an eccentric visual style, dark and mysterious, but "Malastrana" is more than that. In a dialogue which was cut from the original German version (restored for the DVD release 2006), an old man bitterly sums up how the rich and powerful will always find somebody else to die for them, from the soldier on the battlefield to the... well, butterflies. You don't understand my last remark, I guess. You will when you watch this movie. Hush! No more.
Reviewed by claudio_carvalho 7 / 10

A Different Giallo

In Prague, a man is found dead and sent to the morgue. The coroner finds his passport and identifies the American journalist Gregory Moore (Jean Sorel).He finds strange his body temperature and the absence of rigor mortis. However, Gregory is alive and totally paralyzed and recalls all the previous events. Gregory works in Prague with the journalists Jessica (Ingrid Thulin), with whom he had a love affair, and Jacques Versain (Mario Adorf). He will be transferred to London and meets his girlfriend Mira Svoboda (Barbara Bach) to invite her to travel with him. They go to a party and then he returns to his apartment with Mira. During the night, Jacques calls him to investigate the death of a minister. However the information is fake and when he returns to the apartment, he finds that Mira has gone missing. The inefficient Inspector Kierkoff (Piero Vida) is in charge of the investigation and Gregory finds that several young women have disappeared in Prague. He carries out his own investigation culminating to find a mysterious cult. Meanwhile his friend and doctor finds weird the condition of his corpse and tries to revive Gregory. Will he succeed?"La corta notte delle bambole di vetro", a.k.a. "Short Night of Glass Dolls", is a totally different giallo. The story has no gore and slightly recalls the idea of "Sunset Boulevard", where a dead man tells the previous series of events until his death, and "Rosemary's Baby" since there are many people involved in a satanic cult. The conclusion is excellent with no redemption. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "A Breve Noite das Bonecas de Vidro" ("The Short Night of the Glass Dolls")Note: On 11 June 2020 I saw this film again.
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