The upcoming Venice Film Festival has set the world premiere of the restored version of 1967 cult movie “Deadly Sweet,” directed by Italian softcore erotic movies maestro Tinto Brass, as its pre-opening event.
The new digital 4k version of “Deadly Sweet,” which stars Jean-Louis Trintignant and Sweden’s Ewa Aulin, has been restored by Rome’s Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia film archives with support from Netflix. It will screen on the Lido on Sept. 1 and also be included in the Venice Classics program.
The erotic pop thriller, which Brass shot in London, stars Trintignant as young man who discovers that his business contact has been murdered. Instead of calling the police, he decides to protect a young woman, played by Aulin, at the crime scene and pursue the real killers‚ which puts him on a collision course with the London underworld.
“Deadly Sweet” was presented out-of-competition at the 1967 Venice International Film Festival. The film, produced by Ermanno Donati and Luigi Carpentieri, was losely inspired by the novel “Il sepolcro di carta” by Sergio Donati. The screenplay is by Tinto Brass, Francesco Longo and Pierre Lévy-Corti. The cinematography by Silvano Ippoliti, the production design by Carmelo Patrono and the music by Armando Trovajoli.
