Eyes Without a Face
At his secluded château in the French countryside, a brilliant, obsessive doctor (Pierre Brasseur) attempts a radical plastic surgery to restore the beauty of his daughter’s disfigured countenance—at a horrifying price. Eyes Without a Face, directed by the supremely talented Georges Franju, is rare in horror cinema for its odd mixture of the ghastly and the lyrical, and it has been a major influence on the genre in the decades since its release. There are images here—of terror, of gore, of inexplicable beauty—that once seen are never forgotten.
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Blood of the Beasts, Georges Franju’s 1949 documentary about the slaughterhouses of Paris
- Archival interviews with Franju on the horror genre, cinema, and the making of Blood of the Beasts
- Interview with actor Edith Scob
- Excerpts from Les grand-pères du crime, a 1985 documentary about screenwriters Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac
- Trailers
- PLUS: Essays by novelist Patrick McGrath and film historian David Kalat
Cover by Aesthetic Apparatus
Cast
- Pierre Brasseur
- Dr. Génessier
- Alida Valli
- Louise
- François Guérin
- Jacques Vernon
- Edith Scob
- Christiane Génessier
- Juliette Mayniel
- Edna Grüberg
- Alexandre Rignault
- Detective Parot
- Béatrice Altariba
- Paulette Mérodon
- Charles Blavette
- Dog-pound employee
- Claude Brasseur
- Second police detective
Credits
- Director
- Georges Franju
- Producer
- Jules Borkon
- Based on the novel by
- Jean Redon
- Screenplay adaptation by
- Pierre Boileau
- Screenplay adaptation by
- Thomas Narcejac
- Screenplay adaptation by
- Jean Redon
- Screenplay adaptation by
- Claude Sautet
- Dialogue by
- Pierre Gascar
- Music
- Maurice Jarre
- Production manager
- Pierre Laurent
- Director of photography
- Eugen Schüfftan
- Sets
- Auguste Capelier
- Assistant director
- Claude Sautet
- Cameraman
- Robert Schneider
- Makeup
- Georges Klein
- Special effects
- Henri Assola
- Editor
- Gilbert Natot
- Sound engineer
- Antoine Archimbaud
