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The Head: Directed by Victor Trivas. With Horst Frank, Karin Kernke, Helmut Schmid, Paul Dahlke. A scientist invents a serum that keeps a dog's head alive after its body dies.
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- Horror, Sci-Fi
- Victor Trivas
- 1959-07-24
Release date. 24 July 1959. ( 1959-07-24) Running time. 97 minutes. Country. West Germany [1] The Head ( German: Die Nackte und der Satan, lit. 'The Naked and Satan') is a 1959 West German horror film directed by Victor Trivas.
Synopsis. A scientist invents a serum that keeps a dog's head alive after its body dies. When the scientist dies of a heart attack, his crazed assistant cuts off his head and, using the serum, keeps the doctor's head alive and forces it to help him on an experiment to give his hunchbacked nurse assistant a new body.
- Victor Trivas
- 91 min
- 1
Writer/director Victor Trivas brings in his film with a good deal of seedy style, and the look of the picture, with its Expressionistic sets, is often startling. Indeed, I was not surprised to learn that the set decorator here was Hermann Warm, who had earlier worked on such classic films as "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari," "The Passion of Joan of Arc" and "Vampyr."
Dr. Brandt - alias Dr. Ood: Karin Kernke ... Schwester Irene Sander: Helmut Schmid ... Bert Jaeger: Paul Dahlke ... Police Commissioner Sturm: Dieter Eppler ... Paul Lerner: Kurt Müller-Graf ... Dr. Walter Burke: Christiane Maybach ... Stella - alias Lilly: Michel Simon ... Prof. Dr. Abel: Rest of cast listed alphabetically: Herb Beschanner ...
Classic 50's horror, courtesy of producer Wolf C. Hartwig. Horst Frank: the mad scientist, popping people's heads off and keeping them alive to chat with and swapping them onto other bodies. Karin Kernke, the crippled hunchback who believes his promises to repair her spine. Christiane Maybach, the gorgeous stripper who Frank invites over one ...
Dr. Ood (Horst Frank) puts his colleague's (Michel Simon) head in serum X, and a nurse's (Karin Kernke) head on the body of a stripper. Director Victor Trivas Screenwriter Victor Trivas Production ...
- Horror
