Back الطائر ذو الريش البلوري (فيلم) Arabic الطائر ذو الريش البلورى ARZ L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo Catalan L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo Welsh Das Geheimnis der schwarzen Handschuhe German Το Πουλί με τα Κρυσταλλένια Φτερά Greek L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo EML El pájaro de las plumas de cristal Spanish L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo Basque پرندهای با بالهای بلورین Persian
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| Italian | L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo |
| Directed by | Dario Argento |
| Screenplay by | Dario Argento[1] |
| Produced by | Salvatore Argento[1] |
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| Cinematography | Vittorio Storaro |
| Edited by | Franco Fraticelli |
| Music by | Ennio Morricone |
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Running time | 96 minutes[2] |
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The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (Italian: L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo) is a 1970 giallo film written and directed by Dario Argento, in his directorial debut. It stars Tony Musante as an American writer in Rome who witnesses a serial killer targeting young women, and tries to uncover the murderer's identity before he becomes their next victim. The cast also features Suzy Kendall, Enrico Maria Salerno, Eva Renzi, Umberto Raho and Mario Adorf.
A co-production of Italy and West Germany, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage is the first in what has been called his thematic "Animal Trilogy", along with Argento's next two gialli, The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971) and Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1972).[3] Argento's screenplay borrows liberally from Fredric Brown's 1949 novel The Screaming Mimi,[4] which had a previously been made into a 1958 American film.
An international commercial and critical success on release, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage has been credited with popularizing giallo, an Italian genre of horror-thriller developed in the 1960s,[4] and launched Argento's career as a filmmaker.
- ^ a b c d "Das Geheimnis der schwarzen Handschuhe". Filmportal.de. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
- ^ "The Bird with the Crystal Plumage". British Board of Film Classification. 7 March 1983. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
- ^ McDonagh 2010, p. 87.
- ^ a b Lucas, Tim (2007). Mario Bava: All the Colors of the Dark. Video Watchdog. pp. 810–2. ISBN 978-0-9633756-1-2.