London, Soho, 1960: a prostitute on the street, a man approaches, sets off a movie camera hidden under his coat and follows the woman home. While she is taking off her clothes, the woman notices the camera, screams, dies: we have seen it all through the eye of the movie camera. This is the beginning of an absolute masterpiece: Peeping Tom, a film made at low cost by an author who until a few years earlier had been the most famous and magical of all English cinema, Michael Powell (The Red Shoes, Stairway to Heaven) and who in this film bares his visionary soul and the perverse relationship we all have with cinema. This is the story of a mild-mannered and fragile serial killer who works as an operator by day, of a girl who puts her trust in him, of a blind mother with second sight, of an attic room in which the images of death take on a new life. A legend.
DIRECTOR: Micheal Powell
NATION: Regno Unito
YEAR: 1960
RUNTIME: 101′
CAST: Carl Boehm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey, Maxine Audley, Brenda Bruce
Original version with subtitles