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Harry Kümel is a Actor, Director and Writer Belge born on 27 january 1940 at Antwerp (Belgique)
Harry Kümel (born 27 January 1940 in Antwerp, Belgium) is a Belgian film director.
His 1971 vampire feature Daughters of Darkness (Les lèvres rouges), starring Delphine Seyrig became a cult hit in Europe and the United States. He also directed the film version of Malpertuis, featuring Orson Welles and adapted from the novel by Jean Ray.
He also directed Monsieur Hawarden about the cross-dressing Meriora Gillibrand whose two male lovers fought a duel in Vienna. She then killed the survivor and fled to Belgium dressed as a man. She took the name Hawarden from a family related to hers in Lancashire. The film is a fictionalised account; her grave can still be seen in the German-speaking part of Belgium.
He made a cameo appearance in Nicholas Royle's novel Antwerp.
Il est surtout connu pour sa version de Malpertuis, avec Orson Welles et Sylvie Vartan (1972), une adaptation du roman fantastique de Jean Ray.
En 1971, il réalise Les Lèvres rouges, un film d'épouvante stylisé avec Delphine Seyrig dans le rôle d'une vampire lesbienne.
Il est crédité aux génériques de cinq Série rose entre 1986 et 1990. En 1991, il réalise une adaptation du roman Eline Vere, de Louis Couperus.
Il enseigne le cinéma à l'université.
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His 1971 vampire feature Daughters of Darkness (Les lèvres rouges), starring Delphine Seyrig became a cult hit in Europe and the United States. He also directed the film version of Malpertuis, featuring Orson Welles and adapted from the novel by Jean Ray.
He also directed Monsieur Hawarden about the cross-dressing Meriora Gillibrand whose two male lovers fought a duel in Vienna. She then killed the survivor and fled to Belgium dressed as a man. She took the name Hawarden from a family related to hers in Lancashire. The film is a fictionalised account; her grave can still be seen in the German-speaking part of Belgium.
He made a cameo appearance in Nicholas Royle's novel Antwerp.
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Harry Kümel est « Régent de Démonologie et Occultisme » du Collège de 'Pataphysique.Il est surtout connu pour sa version de Malpertuis, avec Orson Welles et Sylvie Vartan (1972), une adaptation du roman fantastique de Jean Ray.
En 1971, il réalise Les Lèvres rouges, un film d'épouvante stylisé avec Delphine Seyrig dans le rôle d'une vampire lesbienne.
Il est crédité aux génériques de cinq Série rose entre 1986 et 1990. En 1991, il réalise une adaptation du roman Eline Vere, de Louis Couperus.
Il enseigne le cinéma à l'université.
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The Breach (1970)
, 2h4Directed by Claude Chabrol
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Michel Bouquet, Jean-Claude Drouot, Annie Cordy, Jean Carmet
Rating71%
Hélène Régnier's (Audran) mentally ill husband Charles (Drouot) injures their son Michel in a violent rage. Charles is then forced to move back in with his wealthy and manipulative parents, who use Hélène as a scapegoat for their son's mental state and decide to take over custody of Michel by any means necessary. While the boy is recovering in a local hospital, Hélène moves to a boarding house nearby. The Régniers hire Paul Thomas (Cassel), an impoverished family acquaintance, to find out something about Hélène which would help them in their custody battle. Paul moves into the boarding house and, with the help of his girlfriend Sonia (Rouvel), plots to ruin Hélène's reputation and then possibly kill her.
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Eline Vere (1991)
, 2h12Directed by Harry Kümel
Origin Pays-bas
Genres Drama
Actors Marianne Basler, Monique van de Ven, Johan Leysen, Thom Hoffman, Aurore Clément, Michael York
Rating61%
Malpertuis (1971)
, 1h50Directed by Harry Kümel
Origin German
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films based on mythology, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Orson Welles, Susan Hampshire, Michel Bouquet, Mathieu Carrière, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Daniel Pilon
Rating66%
Malpertuis is the name of an old, rambling mansion which is in reality a labyrinth where characters from Greek mythology are imprisoned by the bedridden Cassavius (Welles). He manages to keep them (as well as his nephew and niece) prisoners even after his death, through a binding testament. As Jan, the nephew, (Carrière) unravels the mystery, he discovers that he cannot escape the house because Malpertuis is far more significant than he was led to believe.
Daughters of Darkness (1971)
, 1h38Directed by Harry Kümel
Origin Belgique
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, Vampires in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Delphine Seyrig, John Karlen, Danielle Ouimet, Fons Rademakers, Georges Jamin
Rating64%
A recently married young couple, Stefan (John Karlen) and Valerie (Danielle Ouimet), are on their honeymoon. They check into a grand hotel on the Ostend seafront in Belgium, intending to catch the cross-channel ferry to England, though Stefan seems oddly unenthused at the prospect of introducing his new bride to his mother. It is off-season, so the couple are alone in the hotel. Alone, that is, until the sun sets and a mysterious Hungarian countess, Elizabeth Báthory (Delphine Seyrig) arrives in a vintage Bristol driven by her "secretary" Ilona (Andrea Rau). The middle-aged concierge at the hotel swears that he saw the Countess at the same hotel when he was a little boy. The pair may have a connection to three separate gruesome murders of young girls that occurred in Bruges the previous week. On a day trip, Stefan and Valerie witness the aftermath of a fourth. At the hotel, the countess quickly becomes obsessed with the newlyweds, and the resulting interaction of the four people leads to sadism and murder. Ilona, Stefan, then the Countess all die, leaving Valerie, now transformed into a creature similar to the Countess, stalking new victims.
Monsieur Hawarden (1968)
, 1h49Directed by Harry Kümel
Genres Drama
Actors Ellen Vogel, Dora van der Groen, Mariëlle Fiolet
Rating69%
A woman disguises herself as a man to avoid prosecution for murdering her lover fifteen years ago. She is the last living member of a wealthy Vienna family, and has spent the years after the murder traveling Europe with her female servant. Her travels provide her with an anonymous cloak that allows her freedom of movement but little peace of mind. Nearing middle age, the guilt and weariness of an empty life has her contemplating suicide as the only way out of her dilemma.
Scriptwriter
, 2h33Directed by Harry Kümel
Actors Cox Habbema, Ward de Ravet, Willeke van Ammelrooy
Roles Writer
Rating74%
Directed by Pim de la Parra
Genres Drama, Action, Horror
Actors Willeke van Ammelrooy, Nelly Frijda
Roles Writer
Rating52%
Susan vit dans une ferme idyllique aux côtés de Sandra, Olga, Julie et Albert, un voyeur instable. Leur étrange voisine, Piet, est suspectée d'être un vampire sexuel.
Daughters of Darkness (1971)
, 1h38Directed by Harry Kümel
Origin Belgique
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, Vampires in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Delphine Seyrig, John Karlen, Danielle Ouimet, Fons Rademakers, Georges Jamin
Roles Ecrivain
Rating64%
A recently married young couple, Stefan (John Karlen) and Valerie (Danielle Ouimet), are on their honeymoon. They check into a grand hotel on the Ostend seafront in Belgium, intending to catch the cross-channel ferry to England, though Stefan seems oddly unenthused at the prospect of introducing his new bride to his mother. It is off-season, so the couple are alone in the hotel. Alone, that is, until the sun sets and a mysterious Hungarian countess, Elizabeth Báthory (Delphine Seyrig) arrives in a vintage Bristol driven by her "secretary" Ilona (Andrea Rau). The middle-aged concierge at the hotel swears that he saw the Countess at the same hotel when he was a little boy. The pair may have a connection to three separate gruesome murders of young girls that occurred in Bruges the previous week. On a day trip, Stefan and Valerie witness the aftermath of a fourth. At the hotel, the countess quickly becomes obsessed with the newlyweds, and the resulting interaction of the four people leads to sadism and murder. Ilona, Stefan, then the Countess all die, leaving Valerie, now transformed into a creature similar to the Countess, stalking new victims.