Black Sunday - crew, film crew

The entire team, the film crew of the film "Black Sunday"
La maschera del demonio (1960)
Timing: 1:26 (86 min)
Black Sunday - TMDB rating
7.397/10
584
Black Sunday - Kinopoisk rating
6.751/10
2339
Black Sunday - IMDB rating
7.1/10
20000

Film crew

Director

Producer

Massimo De Rita
Producer

Executive Producer

Lionello Santi
Executive Producer

Editor

Mario Serandrei
Editor

Costume Design

Tina Grani
Costume Design

Production Design

Giorgio Giovannini
Production Design

Set Decoration

Nedo Azzini
Set Decoration

Original Music Composer

Roberto Nicolosi
Original Music Composer

Director of Photography

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Mario Bava

Mario Bava
Director of Photography

Camera Operator

Ubaldo Terzano
Camera Operator

Script Supervisor

Bona Magrini
Script Supervisor

First Assistant Director

Vana Caruso
First Assistant Director

Screenplay

Mario Serandrei
Screenplay

Special Effects

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Mario Bava

Mario Bava
Special Effects

Sculptor

Eugenio Bava
Sculptor

Gaffer

Antonio Rinaldi
Gaffer

Conductor

Luigi Urbini
Conductor

Production Secretary

Armando Govoni
Production Secretary

Unit Manager

Paolo Mercuri
Unit Manager

Matte Painter

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Mario Bava

Mario Bava
Matte Painter

Short Story

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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