Death Rite (1976)
- 1976
- ·94 min
While traveling to a resort in Tunisia, the magician and clairvoyant Professor Vestar befriends the idle millionaire Edouard Vangard and he offers a ride in his car.
Vestar discloses to Edouard that he had had a premonition of a woman being murdered in a desert area.
Meanwhile, the Tunisian architect and engineer Sadry Fahres has relationship problems with his spoiled wife Sylvia, who refuses to visit her mother-in-law that is terminal.
Sadry meets his former mistress Martine and she travels with him to visit his mother, rekindling their passion.
Edouard observers the behavior of the trio of lover and decides to help the vision of Professor Vestar to come true, intriguing each one of them to force the murder.
- Actors
- Franco Nero·Gert Fröbe·Jean Rochefort·Stefania Sandrelli
- Directed by
- Claude Chabrol
- Genre
- Drama·Thriller
- Language
- French
- Country
- France·Italy·West Germany
- Director
- Claude Chabrol
First of all, "Death Rite" has great cult value: Claude Chabrol + Franco Nero + Goldfinger (i.e.
After "les noces rouges" (1973) , Chabrol's second period of barren inspiration began.Although adapted from a Frederic Dard novel (Robert Hossein's best film was a Dard novel: "Toi le Venin" ),"Les Magiciens " is a mediocre movie ,which was probably made to combine business with pleasure ( holidays in Tunisia in a luxury hotel).
While traveling to a resort in Tunisia, the magician and clairvoyant Professor Vestar (Gert Fröbe) befriends the idle millionaire Edouard Vangard (Jean Rochefort) in his car. Vestar discloses to Edouard that he had had a premonition of a woman being murdered in a desert area.
