The Severed Heads (1957)
La cravate
A short mime adaptation of a Thomas Mann story about a Parisian urchin who makes her living selling human heads.
- Date of release
- 1957-03-31
- TMDB
- 6.1 / 10 (59)
- Runtime
- 21m
- Genres
- Fantasy, Comedy
- Director
- Alejandro Jodorowsky, Ruth Michelly, Saul Gilbert
Casting
- Raymond Devos
- Denise Brossot
- Rolande Polya
- Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Saul Gilbert
- Jean-Marie Proslier
- Margot Loyola
- Michel Orphelin
- Jean Claude Sergent
- François Perrot
- Théo Lesoualc'h
- Harriet Sohmers
Interesting facts
Les têtes interverties, also known as La cravate, The Transposed Heads and The Severed Heads, is a 1957 French short film written and directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky, Saul Gilbert, and Ruth Michelly. Shot between 1953 and 1957, the film is a mime adaptation of Thomas Mann's 1940 novella The Transposed Heads. The film stars the surreal humorist Raymond Devos as well as Jodorowsky himself.
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