A picturesque Gothic horror film about the poisonous charm of temptation. Russian premiere of the restored version as part of the Ghost Stories film programme.
The Ghost
- Date:
- 14 Nov 2025,
19:30–22:20
- Age restrictions
- 18+
Lo Spettro
1963, Riccardo Freda
Italy
97 minutes, Italian with Russian subtitles
Starring: Barbara Steele, Peter Baldwin, Harriet Medin, Elio Jotta
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Doctor Hitchcock is confined to a wheelchair and treats himself by injecting himself with poison and then immediately with an antidote. His wife is so exhausted by his behaviour that she turns to his assistant Livingstone with a request to poison her husband to death and share the future and inheritance with her. But, having got rid of Hitchcock, Margaret is, of course, doomed to see him again.
Shot from The Ghost, 1963
Freda’s skill in staging proves superior to that of any other Italian director.
— Nocturno Cinema
The Ghost was Riccardo Freda’s second horror film in a row, and while in the first he stirred up the sedate audience with scenes of sex rituals and corpse exhumations, this time the director exaggerated the style, bringing it to supernatural excess, as if to emphasise the rupture of the thread of time.
The screening will be followed by a discussion with film critic Dmitry Karpyuk and curator of the