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"A mad surgeon obsessively attempts to restore the beauty of his daughter (Scob) disfigured in a car crash. The surgeon's assistant (Valli) prowls the Latin quarter in search of victims to provide flesh for the skin grafts. Weird poetry is coaxed from pulp horror fantasy. Franju described it as 'an anguish film' with a quieter mood than horror. Central to the film's surreal ambience is the ethereal quality of Edith Scob and the stark photography of Shufftan. Durgnat comments that "Franju's style itself constitutes a unity, linking the everyday, the atrocious, the pessimistic, the demented, the beautiful ... [extending] a melodramatic idea into a mythological malaise.""
"A mad scientist tries to restore his daughter's face by grafting skin from young women he murders."
"A mad surgeon obsessively attempts to restore the beauty of his daughter (Scob) disfigured in a car crash. The surgeon's assistant (Valli) prowls the Latin quarter in search of victims to provide flesh for the skin grafts. Weird poetry is coaxed from pulp horror fantasy. Franju described it as 'an anguish film' with a quieter mood than horror. Central to the film's surreal ambience is the ethereal quality of Edith Scob and the stark photography of Shufftan. Durgnat comments that "Franju's style itself constitutes a unity, linking the everyday, the atrocious, the pessimistic, the demented, the beautiful ... [extending] a melodramatic idea into a mythological malaise"."
"Fiction. Drame d'horreur. Christiane, la fille d'un chirurgien célèbre, a été affreusement défigurée dans un accident d'auto. Seuls ses yeux sont restés intacts. Pour lui donner un nouveau visage, son père va faire des expériences de greffes de visage en les découpant sur d'autres jeunes filles qui ne survivent pas à l'expérience. Alertée par ces enlèvements mystérieux, la police tend un piège au ravisseur. Avec Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel, Alexandre Rignault, Béatrice Altariba, Blavette, Claude Brasseur."
"A plastic surgeon, holed up in a Paris mansion, is obsessively slicing off the faces of kidnapped women and grafting the flayed skin onto the rotting countenance of his beloved young daughter, disfigured in an automobile accident."
"Un cirujano enloquecido rapta chicas con objeto de utilizar su piel para reconstruir la belleza de su hija, destrozada por un trágico accidente."
"A distinguished plastic surgeon's reckless driving is responsible for disfiguring his beautiful daughter's face; so he kidnaps young women intending to graft their features to make her a new face."
"A doctor, guilty because he has disfigured his daughter in a car accident, tries to restore her beauty by kidnapping runaway girls, peeling off their faces and trying to graft them onto his daughter's ruined features."
"Christiane, la fille du professeur Genessier, a été défigurée dans un accident de voiture provoqué par son père. Celui-ci a installé un laboratoire dans une propriété retirée où Louise, son assistante attire des jeunes filles. Le professeur Genessier veut tenter des greffes sur le visage de sa fille à partir de la peau de ces dernières, qui sont ensuite supprimées. Mais les greffes échouent et Christiane finit par se révolter."
"Dr. Génessier, a renowned surgeon, causes his beautiful daughter Christiane's face to be horribly mutilated in a car accident. To make his daughter whole, Dr. Génessier enlists his assistant Louise in a devious plot: she follows and befriends beautiful young women, so the doctor can remove their faces in painstaking operations, to graft onto Christiane. Sadly, her body rejects the new faces, and so she wears an emotionless mask to cover up her scars. Dr. Génessier's genuine feelings of love and guilt are balanced by his astonishing arrogance and hubris, pressing the moral and legal limits of science for a single, selfish interest. The results are surely going to be disastrous, and deadly."
"At his secluded chateau in the French countryside, a brilliant, obsessive doctor (Pierre Brasseur) attempts a radical plastic surgery to restore the beauty of his daughter's disfigured countenance--at a horrifying price. Eyes Without a Face, directed by the supremely talented Georges Franju, is rare in horror cinema for its odd mixture of the ghastly and the lyrical, and it has been a major influence on the genre in the decades since its release. There are images here--of terror, of gore, of inexplicable beauty--that once seen are never forgotten."
"A distinguished surgeon kidnaps a succession of young women intending to graft their features on to his daughter's disfigured face."
"AChristiane, la fille du professeur Genessier, a été défigurée dans un accident de voiture provoqué par son père. Celui-ci a installé un laboratoire dans une propriété retirée où Louise, son assistante attire des jeunes filles. Le professeur Genessier veut tenter des greffes sur le visage de sa fille à partir de la peau de ces dernières, qui sont ensuite supprimées. Mais les greffes échouent et Christiane finit par se révolter... Un classique du film fantastique français, une belle réussite qui fait froid dans le dos..."
"A distinguished plastic surgeon's reckless driving is responsible for disfiguring his beautiful daughter's face so he kidnaps young women intending to graft their features to make her a new face."
"A distinguished surgeon kidnaps young women intending to graft their features onto his daughter's disfigured face."
"Als seine geliebte Tochter durch einen Autounfall völlig entstellt wird, fühlt sich ihr Vater, ein plastischer Chirurg, schuldig. Aus seiner Verzweiflung heraus will er der Tochter helfen und die einstige Schönheit wieder herstellen. So macht er sich auf die Suche nach perfekten Transplantaten. Doch die ausgewählten Opfer müssen natürlich sterben und der Doktor wird zum Serienmörder."