La machine - un corpo in prestito (1994)

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The Machine is a 1994 French science fiction horror thriller film directed by François Dupeyron and based on René Belletto's 1990 novel. Gérard Depardieu and Didier Bourdon star respectively as a psychiatrist and as a serial killer, whose minds swap bodies after they are connected to the titular machine.

Production

Director François Dupeyron, who had never made a genre film before, began working on the project due to his enjoyment of René Belletto's thriller novel. Belletto, who initially felt that a "Hollywood" director would have been more suitable to adapt his book, was convinced by Dupeyron's enthusiasm for the source material.

Dupeyron considered the film a challenge, as science fiction and horror were never the most common genres in French cinema. He managed to secure funding thanks to the involvement of his friend Gérard Depardieu who had starred in his first feature film, A Strange Place to Meet (1988). Didier Bourdon, known in France as a comic actor and a member of the comedy trio Les Inconnus, was cast against type in his dramatic dual role.

A French-German coproduction, The Machine was filmed both in France and in Germany, with interiors being shot at Babelsberg Studio.

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