Exploitation
Kingpin Rino Di Silvestro's Lurid Masterpiece
Uncut
director: Rino Di Silvestro (as Alex Berger)
starring: Ann Gisel Glass · Sebastiano Somma · Karin Schubert · Donatella
Damiani · Jacques Stany
When
Rino Di Silvestro died (of cancer) in 2009, exploitation cinema lost one
of its greatest trash filmmakers. He was a writer/director who specialized
in extremely raw, graphic and, (yes, without a doubt) offensive low-budget
Grindhouse fare. Mr Di Silvestro claimed to have ghostwritten over 200
screenplays before breaking into filmmaking as the director for WOMEN
IN CELL BLOCK 7 (1973). He followed that classic women-in-prison
film with the streetwalking thriller PROSTITUZIONE.
Over the next few years, he would dabble in all types of trash from Naziploitation
(DEPORTED
WOMEN OF THE SS) to horror (WEREWOLF
WOMAN).
This
particular film, HANNA D, was made to cash-in on
the popularity of the German-made "CHRISTIANE E." It was written,
produced and released within three months of that International boxoffice
hit. The story is the same for both films: a sweet teenager gets lost
to heroin addiction and embraces prostitution to survive. The big difference
between the two movies? Rino Di Silvestro. He wasn't reluctant to turn
the sleaze-meter to 11. Here is a lurid, sordid saga with an eye-popping
performance from Ann Gisel Glass that takes her from teenage innocence
to depraved junkie whore.
Cult
movie fans also take note: Mr Di Silvestro's editor for this dark exploitation
gem is Bruno Mattei.
An
Italian film in English language; widescreen format, uncut version at
88 minutes, DVD encoded for ALL REGION NTSC WORLD FORMAT. Extras include
theatrical trailers.
Graphic
Violence/Nudity/Sexual Brutality/Gore/Drugs
For mature audiences
