Marvel Super Special Magazine: For Your Eyes Only on-set report, including an interview with Michael Gothard ( Read more... )

This interview appeared in ‘X’-Films Vol.3 No 1. 1973.1 While it is more accurate, and contains less that is as demonstrably fake than the ‘interview’ in the German teen magazine “Bravo”, it contains some sections which are certainly made up, and others which seem to have been taken down incorrectly or misunderstood. Also, some of the words ( Read more... )

This extract from the press book was also available in a French translation.MICHAEL GOTHARD ( Read more... )

In this story about the Thirty Years War that ravaged Europe (1618-1648), Michael Gothard played Hansen, one of a band of marauders led by The Captain (Michael Caine ( Read more... )

Filming of “The Last Valley”, at Halliford Studios, Shepperton, England, and in Trins, Tirol, Austria, seems to have taken place during 1969, because there were 40th Anniversary showings on 24 and 27 September 2009. It was not released until January 1971 ( Read more... )

At the Cannes Film Festival, held on the 8th - 23rd May 1969, "Michael Kohlhaas" was one of the 26 official nominations for the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film: the Palme D’Or.

In this year, the competition was won by an equally dystopian film, "If", directed by Lindsay Anderson.

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Samuel Wilson - Mondo 70Volker Schlondorff's adaptation of Heinrich von Kleist's 19th century historical novel about a 16th century rebellion in Saxony is a relic of that strange time when Hollywood was willing to try its luck on practically anything. American producers bankrolled a German crew working in Czechoslovakia with an international cast ( Read more... )

These stills taken from Anita Pallenberg's site feature her, as Katrina, with Michael Gothard as John.


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