| A Black Ribbon for Deborah | |
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| Directed by | Marcello Andrei |
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| Cinematography | Claudio Racca [1] |
| Edited by | Gianni Oppedisano [1] |
| Music by | Albert Verrecchia [1] |
Production company | Paola Film s.r.l. [2] |
| Distributed by | Alpherat |
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Running time | 108 minutes [2] |
| Country | Italy [2] |
| Box office | ₤118.676 million |
A Black Ribbon for Deborah (Italian : Un fiocco nero per Deborah) is a 1974 Italian horror film directed by Marcello Andrei.
Director Marcello Andrei and his co-writers originally conceived the film with an original idea of a dying woman passing the child she is bearing to another person. [3] Giuseppe Pulieri stated that the script he worked one was ruined by a producers attempt to exploit the film as part of the "demonic possession" cycle of films. [3] Pulieri stated that "The script stayed ten years in the drawer, I even pestered Raymond Stross into making it, to no avail ... they altered the story, the in all the usual bullshit: the witches, the sorcerer, the special effects..." [3]
The film began shooting on May 13, 1974. [3]
A Black Ribbon for Deborah was distributed theatrically in Italy by Alpherat on 26 September 1974. [2] The film grossed a total of 118,676,000 Italian lire domestically. [2] Italian film historian Roberto Curti described the film as passing "almost unnoticed on its theatrical release". [3]
The film was first released on home video in the United States and the United Kingdom in the early 1980s. [3] It was released in the United Kingdom as The Torment. [2]
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