Al di la del Bene e del Male (1977)
- Starring:
- Dominique Sanda, Erland Josephson, (more)
- Director(s):
- Liliana Cavani
Synopsis of Al di la del Bene e del Male
A misguided attempt to dramatize the psychological triad formed by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (Erland Josephson), his Jewish friend Paul Rees (Robert Powell), and a Russian girl named Lou Von Salome (Dominique Sanda), this overbearing drama fails mightily. Nietzsche is portrayed as a jealous sociopath who drives Rees to suicide, and director Liliana Cavani cannot resist including a drug-hallucination ballet about Good and Evil which approaches the excesses of her controversial Il Portiere di Notte in its melodramatic sexual hysteria. Cavani's film is feverish where it should have been calculating and lurid where it should have been provocative. The result may be the first exploitation film aimed at philosophy students, and even deft supporting turns by Virna Lisi and Philippe Leroy cannot make the dialogue -- drawn hamfistedly from Nietzsche's own writings -- any less ridiculous. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi
Complete Cast of Al di la del Bene e del Male
- Dominique Sanda - Lou Andreas-Salome
- Robert Powell - Paul Ree
- Philippe Leroy - Peter Gast
- Michael Degen - Karl Andreas
- Nicoletta Machiavelli - Amando
- Carmen Scarpitta - Malvida
- Erland Josephson - Friedrich Nietzsche
- Virna Lisi - Elisabeth Nietzsche
- Elisa Cegani - Franziska Nietzsche
- Umberto Orsini - Bernard Forster
- Amedeo Amodio - Dr. Dulcamara
- Director(s):
- Liliana Cavani
- Writer(s):
- Franco Arcalli, Liliana Cavani, Italo Moscati
- Producer(s):
- Robert Gordon Edwards
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