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Il dio serpente (The snake god) is a 1970 Italian erotic fantasy film directed by Piero Vivarelli and featuring Italian-based American actress Nadia Cassini in her first lead role. The film is an earlier example of voodoo (and later zombie) themed sexploitation films shot in Colombia by Italian directors. The theme song of the film, "Djamballà" by Augusto Martelli, reached the first position in the Italian hit parade.
Plot
Paola is in a deteriorating marriage with Bernard. After the couple move to an island in the Caribbean, Paola befriends a local woman named Stella who introduces her to the cult of the serpent god Djamballà. Paola, first despising the rituals of the cult, soon realises that they represent the passion and lust lacking in her married life. At a ritual where reality is interspersed within fantasy, Paola has sex with a strong black man she identifies with the serpent god himself. After her husband's sudden death, she invites her former lover Tony to the island to start a new life but understands that Djamballà has become her sole obsession.
Cast
Nadia Cassini as Paola
Beryl Cunningham as Stella
Sergio Tramonti as Tony
Galeazzo Bentivoglio as Bernard
Arnoldo Palacios as Witch Man
Juana Sobreda
Claudio Trionfi as Priest
Evaristo Marquez as Djamballà
Koike Mahoco
Production
Director Piero Vivarelli said a sex scene played by Nadia Cassini was not simulated: "I had told Evaristo Marquez, the actor who had a torrid scene with her, to act like everything was real. And I think that's what happened. Besides, Cassini didn't mind."
References
External links
Il dio serpente at IMDb
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Galeazzo Benti
- Il dio serpente
- Il Serpente di Bronzo
- Augusto Martelli
- Beryl Cunningham
- Evaristo Márquez
- Nadia Cassini
- Deaths in November 2014
- 61st Venice International Film Festival
- Dagored
- List of Italian films of 1970
