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by Segundo Víctor Aurelio Chomón y Ruiz - The story of Tom Thumb, re-released in the US as a split reel along with the documentary The Hermit Crab in 1922
Margherita, a regular girl just about to turn thirty, has got a life and a normal job, a boyfriend whom she loves and a she did not get any strange ideas.
Her existence is disrupted by the death of her beloved grandmother who had raised her.
The old woman was hiding a secret that had torn her soul for years: discovering what happened to her mother, a young actress in the twenties, disappeared during the shooting of a film directed by a madman named Agenore Venturi.
After her grandmother’s funeral, Margherita begins to have terrifying visions and fears of going crazy. Even her boyfriend begins to doubt her sanity. The visions are increasingly disturbing and Margaret decides to seek help from a priest, her confidant. The man reveals to her something terrible about Venturi’s past.
After overcoming many misfortunes, Margaret succeeded in finding a copy of the film that was supposed to be lost.
The vision of those images reveals a truth that had to remain buried in the oblivion of time.
ANDREAS MARSCHALL was born 1961 in Karlsruhe, Germany and began his career as an artist of graphic novels and Metal covers. Among others, he designed the movie posters for Jörg Buttgereit´s genre classics NEKROMANTIK and NEKROMANTIK 2 and record artworks for OBITUARY.
Marschall’s first film project as a director was the rock-music-compilation HALLUCINATIVE COMAS (1991) for the Heavy Metal band Kreator. Since then, he has directed over 80 video clips, for Heavy Metal-, Rock- and Pop-Groups (such as Sodom, Thunderhead, Guano Apes), as well as commercials and corporate films.
Marschall edited feature films such as TRACK (1996), AS FAR AS MY FEET WILL CARRY ME (2001) , HAVANA DARKNESS (2017) and TV programs and has worked as a screenwriter (THE COLD HEART, 2016). He also worked as a drama teacher at various German schools.
In 2004 he made his feature film debut with the innovative, award winning TEARS OF KALI (“The most beautiful and intense German horror film in 20 years“- Sebastian Selig), which became an instant hit among festival-goers and a box-office success. It was distributed in all the major key territories and is today considered an independent genre classic.
The following movie MASKS (2011) is both a loving tribute to the Italian genre cinema of the seventies and a fascinating Thriller-experience, that stands on its own.
Satan s'amuse (Satán se divierte in Spanish, Satan at Play in English) is a 1907 French silent film directed by pioneer Segundo de Chomón. It is often confused with Le spectre rouge, even in IMDb database and therefore all YouTube attributions.
Plot
The Devil is bored. He goes back to Earth with a magic elevator. He surprises two sewer workers, disguises himself as a city man, and spreads improbable events: quarrel with a coachman, altercation with a city sergeant, mystification of a barman, quiproquo with couples… He's trapped in a cage with a young woman, and goes down to hell. Surprise, the young woman is Madame Devil who was disguised by jealousy.