But You Were Dead

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Directed byGianni Vernuccio
Screenplay byEnzo Ferraris[1]
Story byGianni Vernuccio[1]
Produced byGianni Vernuccio
But You Were Dead
Directed byGianni Vernuccio
Screenplay byEnzo Ferraris[1]
Story byGianni Vernuccio[1]
Produced byGianni Vernuccio
StarringAlba Rigazzi
Cristina Gaioni
Alex Morrison
CinematographyGianni Vernuccio
Edited byGianni Vernuccio
Music byGiorgio Gaslini[1]
Production
company
Mercurfin Italiana[1]
Distributed byMercurfin
Release date
  • 1 October 1966 (1966-10-01) (Italy)
CountryItaly[1]
Box office61,000,000 Italian lire

But You Were Dead (Italian: La lunga notte di Veronique, lit.'The Long Night of Veronique') is a 1966 Italian film directed, produced, shot and edited by Gianni Vernuccio.[1]

After his parents are killed in a car accident, Giovanni Bernardi visits his grandfather, Count Marco Anselmi. While staying at the old man's villa, he sees a ghost-like girl named Veronique. Giovanni learns that she died in World War I but her spirit still wanders the grounds and haunts the living.

Cast

  • Alba Rigazzi - Veronique
  • Cristina Gaioni - Cristina
  • Alex Morrison
  • Antonio Bellani
  • Walter Pozzi - Count Marco Anselmi
  • Jeanine Falconi[2][3]

Production

But You Were Dead was funded by the small Milan-based company Mercurfin and was shot entirely in Lombardy.[4] Italian film historian Roberto Curti stated that although the film was marketed as a horror film, it was more of a "supernatural melodrama"[4]

Release

But You Were Dead was distributed theatrically in Italy by Mercurfin on 1 October 1966.[1] The film grossed a total of 61 million Italian lire domestically.[1] It was released on VHS in Italy by Cosmo Video.[1] The film was released in the United Kingdom with the title But You Were Dead.[4]

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