The Head
The Soviet Russia of old is an immobile head without a body that appears in various locations, clashing with the morals and sentiments of a modern rich man. This man seeks advise from the head but finds that it is annoyingly unresponsive or unhelpful as it sends him on various missions and tests. At times he uses violence or oral rape to get what he wants until he grows too exasperated. Most of the movie consists of improvised dialogue or rants, and meandering scenes in a weapons shop, a railway, and a meeting where the man performs a bizarre magic performance with chickens, eggs and a cardboard box..
From the archive
“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.”(imdb.com) Imaginatively titled for US release as “The Head,” this older German cousin of “The Brain That Wouldn’t Die” is also known as “Die Nackte und der Satan” (“The Naked and the Satan”). Curiously, the two films share some aspects -- decapitation, a full-body transplant, strippers, a disembodied head that speaks without lungs, All dialogue is in dubbed English. My source was flat and gray, so I boosted the contrast a bit before uploading. Research by oldbones indicates this movie is PD.
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- Director
- Svetlana Baskova
- Starring
- Sergey Pakhomov, Aleksandr Maslaev, Aleksandr Mironov, Denis Geymur, Leonid Mashinskiy, Rustam Mosafir, Georgiy Ostretsov, Danila Konstantinov
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