The Stendhal Syndrome

La sindrome di Stendhal (1996)

Timing: 1:59 (119 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1996-01-26

Country

Italy

Production

Medusa Film, Cine 2000

Genre

Thriller, Horror

Budget

$3 800 000

Revenue

$0

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Director

Dario Argento

Actors

Asia Argento, Thomas Kretschmann, Marco Leonardi, Luigi Diberti, Paolo Bonacelli, Lucia Stara, Lorenzo Crespi, Vera Gemma, Veronica Lazăr, Sandro Giordano
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Scenario

Franco Ferrini, Dario Argento

Producer

Dario Argento, Giuseppe Colombo

Operator

Giuseppe Rotunno

Composer

Ennio Morricone

Artist

Audition

Editing

Angelo Nicolini
All team (18)

• Stendhal syndrome is a specific psychological peculiarity in which a person experiences art with intense emotion, as if being transported into the reality depicted on the canvas. The boundary between reality and fantasy blurs for these people.
• Director Dario Argento admitted that he himself experienced Stendhal syndrome as a child (a specific psychological peculiarity in which a person experiences art with intense emotion, as if being transported into the reality depicted on the canvas). Once, during a trip to Athens with his parents, he was climbing the steps of the Parthenon when he had an attack, fell into a trance, got lost, and was not found for several hours. This made such an impression on him that Argento never forgot about the incident, and when he came across a book by Graciela Magherini, he immediately thought of it and made a film on the subject.
• To decorate Alfredo's underground dwelling, graffiti artists were hired, and in just one night they covered about 10 square meters of walls with drawings.
• The underwater filming of Anna after she fainted did not take place in a swimming pool, but in the sea. The giant grouper she kisses was actually a radio-controlled model towed on ropes attached to a motorboat. Literally a couple of minutes after filming wrapped, the model broke down.