Directed by:
Victor TrivasScreenplay:
Victor TrivasCinematography:
Georg KrauseComposer:
Willy MattesCast:
Horst Frank, Helmut Schmid, Paul Dahlke, Michel Simon, Barbara Valentin, Christiane Maybach, Kurt Müller-Graf, Walter Holten, Maria Stadler, Osman RaghebPlots(1)
A scientist's procedure for keeping body parts functioning is turned against him when a demented assistant decapitates him and keeps his head alive in the laboratory. The scientist's brain is preserved in order to assist in a far more demonic experiment - the attachment of his hunchbacked nurse's head to the body of a voluptuous stripper. Descending into the world of The Head is a similar experience to that of a nightmare where the landscape is composed of dead trees dark passageways and sinister operating rooms populated by the extremes of society - hunchbacks strippers and madmen. When the scientist reveals his gruesome masterpiece - the dismembered head kept alive by wires machines and "Serum Z" - silent transfixed horror is the only possible reaction. (official distributor synopsis)
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Horst Frank
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Helmut Schmid
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Paul Dahlke
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Michel Simon
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Barbara Valentin
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Christiane Maybach
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Walter Holten
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Maria Stadler
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