Stockholm Film Festival

This film was suggested to me by Andy Braunsberg and Roman Polanski. They liked 3D and thought I should make something in it. Carlo Ponti and Jean-Pierre Rassam financed this and ”Dracula”, shot back to back in Rome in 1973. Both films remain very personal to me. I wrote them each morning on the way to the set and both came in exactly on schedule and budget.
It was the first time I worked with a full studio crew. I was glad I had made ”Flesh”, ”Trash” and ”Heat” before since I realized that the informal circumstances of those productions could never be duplicated under any kind of large commercial production. Nothing in the films was improvised, but memorized just before the shots were made.
This was a very big commercial success both in the U.S and in Europe and in Japan, a first for me. Not wanting to just cut off my partnership with Andy whom I had managed and who had enabled me to develop an unusual one-man style of filmmaking, I gave him one half of my percentage interest in both films and in exchange he was to become the ''presenter'' of the films. The original credits say Andy Warhol presents a Carlo Ponti, Andy Braunsberg, Jean-Pierre Rassam Production. Unfortunately many distributors simply changed the billing in the ads to say Andy Warhol's ”Frankenstein & Dracula” To credit films to a ''presenter'' who only saw the films when they were finished editing was something neither I nor Andy himself wanted, but lawsuits were expensive and I always wondered if anyone bothered to read the actual credits on the films. Very few did.
Paul Morrissey

Medverkande

Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier, Monique van Vooren

Producent

Andrew Braunsberg, Jean-Pierre Rassam, Carlo Ponti

Manus

Paul Morrissey

Foto

Luigi Kuvellier

Musik

Claudio Gizzi

Talat språk

English

 

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