Black Sunday - actors, characters and roles
All actors and their roles in the film "Black Sunday"
La maschera del demonio (1960)
Timing:
1:26 (86 min)
7.397/10
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6.751/10
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7.1/10
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Actors and characters
Arturo Dominici
Character Igor Javutich / Javuto
Ivo Garrani
Character Prince Vajda
Andrea Checchi
Character Dr. Choma Kruvajan / Dr. Thomas Kruvajan
Antonio Pierfederici
Character Priest
Clara Bindi
Character Inn Keeper
Germana Dominici
Character Sonya - Innkeeper's Daughter
Renato Terra
Character Boris - Stablehand
Mario Passante
Character Nikita - Coachman
What's left behind the scenes
- By the standards of the 60s, the film was considered too violent, and as a result, it was banned in the UK until 1968. In the US, the film was subjected to censorship.
- Despite his love for Russian classics, Mario Bava didn't bother to check a map to see where the story would take place. As a result, a curious situation arises – everything happens near Mirgorod, but it is said to be territory of Moldova, yet from there one can reach Moscow by carriage in about a day.
- The film has different titles in different languages – the English version is called «Black Sunday», the German version is «Die Stunde, wenn Dracula kommt» ("The Hour When Dracula Comes"). However, neither Black Sunday nor Dracula are mentioned in the film.
- Mario Bava was, at that time, the savior of the "Galatea" studio – he quickly and relatively efficiently completed projects that had gone out of control and were handed over to him, meeting deadlines. As a result, "Galatea" was generous to Bava and made him a gift, allocating six weeks for filming "Black Sunday", whereas the standard shooting period at the time was three to four weeks.
- Barbara Steele was given one page of the script per day.
- Initially, the characters of Barbara Steele and Arturo Dominici were equipped with vampire fangs, but Bava later abandoned this idea.
- The credits state that the film is based on a story by Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol. However, since the main antagonists of the film are vampires, the influence of Bram Stoker’s novel and the classic films made from it is evident.
- The film has different titles in different languages – the English version is called 'Black Sunday,' the German version is 'Die Stunde, wenn Dracula kommt' ('The Hour When Dracula Comes'). Yet neither Black Sunday nor Dracula are mentioned in the film.
- Mario Bava was, at the time, a savior for the 'Galatea' studio – he quickly and relatively efficiently completed projects that had gone out of control and been handed over to him. As a result, 'Galatea' was generous with Bava and made him a gift, allocating six weeks for filming 'Black Mask,' while the standard shooting period at the time was three to four weeks.
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