Eyes Without a Face (film)
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| A brilliant surgeon, Dr. Génessier, helped by his assistant Louise, [[kidnap]]s young women. He removes the skin from their faces and tries to [[skin graft|transplant]] it onto his daughter Christiane, whose face has been disfigured in a [[car crash]]. All the experiments fail, and the victims die, but Génessier keeps trying while Christiane becomes more unbalanced.{{GFDL}} | A brilliant surgeon, Dr. Génessier, helped by his assistant Louise, [[kidnap]]s young women. He removes the skin from their faces and tries to [[skin graft|transplant]] it onto his daughter Christiane, whose face has been disfigured in a [[car crash]]. All the experiments fail, and the victims die, but Génessier keeps trying while Christiane becomes more unbalanced.{{GFDL}} | ||
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Eyes Without a Face (Les Yeux sans Visage) is a 1960 French film directed by Georges Franju and co-written by the duo Boileau-Narcejac. It starred Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli and Édith Scob. The music was composed by Maurice Jarre. The film is based on a novel by Jean Redon.
A brilliant surgeon, Dr. Génessier, helped by his assistant Louise, kidnaps young women. He removes the skin from their faces and tries to transplant it onto his daughter Christiane, whose face has been disfigured in a car crash. All the experiments fail, and the victims die, but Génessier keeps trying while Christiane becomes more unbalanced.
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