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1980réf. 147395N.p.: N.p. 1980. Set of two treatment scripts for an unproduced television project variously described as a television series or prospective feature film. Text in German and English. Based on Nobel Prize-winning author Hermann Hesse's 1934 novel set to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Centuries into the future a closed utopian society is dedicated solely to intellectual pursuits encapsulated in the "glass bead game" an esoteric competition which requires a limitless knowledge of music math and culture to win. Hesse's novel follows Joseph Knecht as he becomes a master of the game eventually rising to the top of the hierarchy to become Magister Ludi the executive officer of the game administrators. Although "Das Glasperienspiel" was begun in 1931 publication in Germany was stalled due to the novel's anti-fascist messages leading Hesse to eventually seek publication in Switzerland in 1943. Set in Castalia a fictional province of central Europe in the 25th century. Yellow text in German: Ordered but unbound leaves housed in a yellow plastic folder. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Titus Leber. 22 leaves not numbered. Xerographically reproduced on blue and white stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus. Black text in English: Ordered but unbound leaves housed in a black plastic folder. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Titus Leber. 22 leaves with last page of text numbered 20. Xerographically reproduced on blue and white stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus. N.p. unknown
1970réf. 147366N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced Norwegian film. With manuscript annotations in ink and pencil throughout. Incomplete as issued. Text in English. Set in Brazil. White titled self-wrappers. Title page present noted as Version 3 with credits for screenwriter VILGOT SJOMAN. 91 leaves with last page of text numbered 91. Carbon typescript rectos only. Pages Good partially bound with one paper clip. N.p. unknown
1971réf. 147252N.p.: N.p. 1971. Draft script for the 1971 film. With what we assume to be translator Alan Blair's handwritten ink annotations throughout the script mostly in English but occasionally in Swedish noting many substantive revisions and deletions. Text in English. Bergman's first English language film shot in England and Sweden and his first film to involve a major American actor Elliott Gould working alongside Bergman regulars Max von Sydow and Bibi Andersson. A seemingly happy Swedish housewife and mother begins an adulterous affair with a foreign archaeologist who is working near her home an emotionally scarred survivor of the Holocaust. Set and shot on location in Sweden and England. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for director Ingmar Bergman and English translator Alan Blair. 57 leaves with last page of text numbered 56. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good wrapper Very Good plus with a black comb binding. N.p. unknown
1983réf. 146495N.p.: N.p. 1983. Treatment script for an unproduced television project variously described as a television series or prospective feature film. Text in German. Based on Nobel Prize-winning author Hermann Hesse's 1934 novel set to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Centuries into the future a closed utopian society is dedicated solely to intellectual pursuits encapsulated in the "glass bead game" an esoteric competition which requires a limitless knowledge of music math and culture to win. Hesse's novel follows Joseph Knecht as he becomes a master of the game eventually rising to the top of the hierarchy to become Magister Ludi the executive officer of the game administrators. Although "Das Glasperienspiel" was begun in 1931 publication in Germany was stalled due to the novel's anti-fascist messages leading Hesse to eventually seek publication in Switzerland in 1943. Set in Castalia a fictional province of central Europe in the 25th century. Clear untitled plastic wrappers. Title page present dated 1983 noted as Treatment with credits for screenwriter TITUS LEBER novelist Hermann Hesse and music credits to Johann Sebastian Bach. 21 leaves with last page of text numbered 20. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with white clip binding. N.p. unknown
1967réf. 146428Rome: Arco 1967. Draft script for the 1967 Italian film. Text in English printed in Rome. Based on the 1923 novel wherein a former pirate falls in love with a mentally ill young woman who falls in love instead with a French naval officer. Set in France shot on location in Italy. Blue wrappers with the film's English title printed on a red label and affixed to the front wrapper. Title page present with the film's English and Italian titles given. 207 leaves with last page of text numbered 206. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with a strip of adhesive residue likely from tape running vertically across the rear wrapper binding bound with two gold brads. Arco unknown
1980réf. 146511Berlin: CCC-Film CCC-Filmkunst 1980. Draft script for the 1983 German film directed by Andrzej Wajda. With a few small manuscript pencil annotations mostly regarding a character's name change and changes to pagination. Laid in with the script is a handwritten letter discussing films with KO-Productions. Text in German. Missing page 59 likely as used or issued. Based on the 1980 novel. In 1983 a middle-aged man returns to his hometown village with his teenage son in an attempt to discover the details of his mother's affair with a Polish prisoner of war during World War II. Set in Brombach shot on location in Baden-Wurttemberg and Berlin. Yellow titled perfect-bound wrappers. Title page present dated Januar 1980 with credits for screenwriters Rolf Hochhuth and Werner Jorg Luddecke. 216 leaves with last page of text numbered 210. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus. CCC-Film [CCC-Filmkunst] unknown
1984réf. 147308Paris: Sofracima 1984. Early draft script for the 1984 Mexican crime film here under the working title "Rainy Days Rainy Nights." Text in English. After her car breaks down in the middle of the night in rural France a young woman is lured to the home of a local pharmacist who promises to allow her to use his telephone to call a towing company. A violent struggle soon ensues forcing the woman to kill him in self-defense after he attempts to sexually assault and strangle her. A very early draft predating substantial revisions by director Juan Lopez Moctezuma. Set in France. White non-standard Sofracima studio wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Emmerich Oross. 99 leaves with last page of text numbered 86. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with a black Velo binding. Sofracima unknown
1983réf. 147127N.p.: N.p. 1983. Draft script for the 1983 film here under the working title "Herazaal ou La Nuit des Temps" Herazaal or the Mists of Time. Text in French. A very early draft script bearing little resemblance save the names of the central characters to the final film which focuses on the incestuous power-hungry Sicilian family of Count Carlo de Villafratti. Set in Venice. White titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for director Claude d'Anna and screenwriters M.F. Bonin and Monique Lange. 103 leaves with last page of text numbered 103. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus overall wrapper Very Good plus with a black comb binding. N.p. unknown
1984réf. 149779Munich: Bavaria Atelier 1984. Draft script for the first episode Episode 1 of the four-episode television miniseries "Vater und Sohne: Eine deutsche Tragodie" Father and Son: A German Tragedy which first aired November 12 1986 on Radiotelevisione Italiana here under the working title "Joint Venture." Text in English. The story of two wealthy German families-one family Jewish bankers the other founders of a chemical corporation-before during and after World War II. Although initially filmed in English the miniseries was first broadcast in its full eight hours on Italian and German television in 1986 and 1987 before being drastically edited to four hours for its 1988 debut on American television. Set and shot on location in Germany. Tall clear untitled plastic front wrapper and purple rear wrapper i.e. generic report folder. Title page present dated March 14 1984 with credits for director Bernhard Sinkel. 158 leaves with last page of text numbered 157. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with a white prong binding. Bavaria Atelier unknown
1978réf. 151234Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1978. Vintage borderless studio still photograph of director Ulu Grosbard and actor Dustin Hoffman on location for the 1978 film. Based on Edward Bunker's 1972 novel about a recently paroled ex-con who struggles to adapt to the outside world written during Bunker's own time in prison in San Quentin. A masterful neo-noir and one of actor Dustin Hoffman's most underrated performances. Film debuts of both Gary Busey and Theresa Russell. Shot on location in California. 7.5 x 9.75 inches. Near Fine faintly toned. Grant US. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Warner Brothers unknown
1959réf. 143374Kanagawa Japan: Daiei Studios 1959. Treatment script for the 1959 Japanese film. Based on the 1956 novel by Tanizaki Jun'ichir "Kagi" or "The Key". Annotations and stamps throughout noting a date of March 28 1959 mention of a presentation and "Script Research Library Holding." Winner of the 1960 Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Adapted from the 1956 novel "The Key" by Jun'ichir Tanizaki and remade Tinto Brass Koji Wakamatsu and others. A satirical late-noir treatise on the decay of human physical ability mental health and sexual desire told in a seemingly reserved family context with stunning cinematography by Kazuo Miyagawa "Yojimbo" "Rashomon" "Floating Weeds" and cinematic style that masterfully blends Ozu and Hitchcock. Restored in 2024 by the Kadokawa Corporation for screening at the 82nd Venice Film Festival and subsequent international screenings through 2026. Shot on location in Japan. Titles and text in Japanese. White titled wrappers with black and gold titles and various rubber stamps on the front wrapper. Title page not present. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered "e-28." Mechanical duplication. Near Fine with light age toning. Daiei Studios unknown
réf. 147427N.p.: N.p. Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced film. Text in French. An unassuming couple accidentally overhears a gang's plans to rob a bank and decide to personally interfere with the end goal of securing the money for themselves. Screenwriter Hubert Cornfield was best known as a director for Twentieth Century-Fox in the 1950s and 60s. From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye" Robert Altman 1973 "The Missouri Breaks" Arthur Penn 1976 and "Heat" Michael Mann 1996. Set in France. Black untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Hubert Cornfield. 92 leaves with last page of text numbered 90. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two silver clasps. N.p. unknown
réf. 148354Rome: Solaris Cinematografica 2000. Eighth Draft script for the 2001 television film originally aired on January 22 on Channel 5. Copy belonging to script supervisor Franca Invernizzi with her extensive manuscript annotations on nearly every page and many page versos regarding camera shots takes timing and dialogue. Bound in after the script are six pages of Invernizzi's handwritten notes. Text in Italian. Missing page 98 likely as used or issued. Based on the 1995 novel by Maria Orsini Natale. A noblewoman's adopted daughter falls in love with her foster brother causing great rifts between mother and daughter and exposing older family secrets. Set and shot on location in Naples Italy. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 5 OTTOBRE 2000 with credits for director and screenwriter Lina Wertmuller screenwriter Elvio Porta and novelist Mario Orsini Natale. 196 leaves with last page of text numbered 186. Xerographic duplication rectos only with white undated revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with light soil and edgewear bound with two silver brads. Solaris Cinematografica unknown
réf. 148351Rome: Reteitalia 1989. Draft script for the 1989 television film originally aired on Video 80 on May 12. Copy belonging to script supervisor Franca Invernizzi with her extensive manuscript annotations on nearly every page and many page versos regarding camera shots takes timing and dialogue. Bound in after the script is an annotated list of scenes and several handwritten pages of Invernizzi's notes. Laid in with the script are three carbon typescript revision pages and several documents relating to production. Text in Italian. Based on Giovanni Guareschi's 1982 short story. After moving to Bologna to start a new life an impoverished widow decides to hide the existence of her nine children from her landlady in order to avoid higher rent prices. Set and shot on location in Bologna. Script: Brown quarter leather spring binder housing the script. Script in yellow untitled wrappers. Title page present dated Ottobre 1987 with credits for director Lina Wertmuller and novelist Giovanni Guareschi. 134 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with light wear overall and tape reinforcements to the spine bound with two gold brads. List of scenes: Seven leaves with last page numbered 7. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light edgewear. Reteitalia unknown
réf. 148341London: Lord Grade 1978. Draft script for the 1978 film here under the working title "Titoli di Testa." Copy belonging to script supervisor Franca Invernizzi with her extensive manuscript annotations on nearly every page and many page versos regarding camera shots takes timing and dialogue. Bound in after the script is an annotated list of scenes and several handwritten pages of Invernizzi's notes. Text in Italian. In 1920s Sicily a capitalist and a socialist vie for the affections of a grief-stricken woman whose husband was killed by a fascist mafioso. The follow-up to director Lina Wertmuller's Oscar-nominated 1976 film "Seven Beauties" and a lyrical formidable film in its own right. Set and shot on location in Sicily. Script: Black faux-leather untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for director Lina Wertmuller. 326 leaves with last page of text numbered 301. Xerographic duplication rectos only with white undated revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good with some revision pages lightly worn and toned to the edges wrapper Very Good lightly edgeworn with several tape repairs to the spine with perfect binding. List of scenes: 10 leaves with last page numbered 10. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light edgewear. Lord Grade unknown
1943réf. 149399N.p.: N.p. 1943. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Georg Wilhelm G.W. Pabst on the set of the 1943 German film. Production stamps on verso. Made to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the death of Paracelsus. Story of the 16th century Swiss physician/alchemist/astrologer Paracelsus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim played by Werner Krauss. Made under the auspices of the Third Reich Pabst's second film upon his forced return to Germany after a period in France Paracelsus took on a new vogue in early 1940s Germany attributing Nazi ideals and a hyper-Germanness to the Swiss alchemist and physician. After the collapse of the Third Reich Pabst would go on to forcefully denounce Nazism. Shot on location in Old Town Prague Czech Republic. 7 x 9.75 inches. Light creasing and edgewear else Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1963réf. 149232Paris: Lux Film 1963. Promotional flyer for the 1963 French film. Text in French. During World War I a man supplements his income by luring middle-class Parisian women to a countryside villa where he seduces and kills them burns their bodies then helps himself to their bank accounts keeping himself his wife his mistress and his four children in the lifestyle to which they are accustomed. The first and only screenwriting credit of author and playwright Francoise Sagan. Shot on location in Paris and Gambais France. 10.5 x 8.5 inches. Single sheet. Near Fine with a small dampstain to the top edge. Lux Film unknown
1977réf. 146559Munich: Terrafilm 1977. Draft script for an unproduced film original ribbon copy typescript. Laid in with the script is a two-page typed letter addressed to casting agent Paul Kohner from Terra Film producer Lothar H. Krischer and director Karoly Makk with manuscript ink annotations to the first page. Also included is a telegraph from Krischer to Kohner introducing the script. Text in German. A young woman arrives at a dilapidated hospital searching for answers to her past. Academy Award-winning Hungarian director Karoly Makk garnered accolades for his incisive political films during Hungarian cinema's renaissance in the postwar period most notably "Love" 1971 "Cats' Play" 1972 and "Another Way" 1982. Red untitled card wrappers. Title page present with credits for director Karoly Makk and screenwriter Gunther Heller. 171 leaves with last page of text numbered 169. Ribbon copy typescript rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with yapping and light soil bound with a gold prong. Terrafilm unknown
1960réf. 146515N.p.: N.p. 1960. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a single manuscript annotation in ink on the front wrapper. Laid in with the script is a typed page crediting Pierre Gaspard-Huit as director. Text in French. An FBI agent infiltrates an international drug smuggling ring that operates primarily through a system of casinos. Set in Portugal. Grey titled wrappers. Title page present rubber-stamped France-Cinema-Productions with credits for screenwriter Jean-Michel Clermontet. 62 leaves with last page of text numbered 58. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with faint foxing to the verso of the final leaf wrapper Very Good plus with perfect binding. N.p. unknown
réf. 146518N.p.: N.p. Unknown. Treatment script for an unproduced film. With a manuscript ink annotation to the title page stating "ROUGH TRANSLATION / VERY ROUGH" and a few small proofreader's annotations. Text in English. Incomplete apparentlhy as issued. An assassin becomes involved with a solitary young woman and gives her a handgun to protect herself while he's out of the country on an assignment-a gift which invariably only lands her in deeper trouble. Screenwriters Eugenio Martin and Jose G. Maesso were best known for their work on "The Ugly Ones" 1968 a violent heavily influential Euro Western film. Set in the US and Uruguay. Tan untitled side stapled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Jose G. Maesso and Eugenio Martin. 52 leaves with last page of text numbered 51. Carbon typescript rectos only. Pages Very Good wrapper Very Good plus with the final few leaves loose from the binding. Pitts 4631. N.p. unknown
1978réf. 146577N.p.: N.p. 1978. Draft script for the 1985 film. Text in English. Based on the 1960 German novel wherein a crew of bored sailors stationed on a floating lighthouse must suddenly fight to defend their vessel from a criminal trio seeking to overtake the ship. An early draft of the script written seven years before the film's release. Set and shot on location in Germany. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated November 1978 with credits for screenwriter and novelist Siegfried Lenz screenwriter Rainer Soehnlein and translator Scott Morrison. 206 leaves with last page of text numbered 202. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with silver prong binding. N.p. unknown
1970réf. 146785N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Text in German. Based on the 1978 novel by John Godey wherein a deadly black mamba is accidentally released into Central Park and hunted down by a rogue herpetologist. Set in New York City. Lacking titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter THOMAS GSPANDL and novelist JOHN GODEY. 76 leaves with last page of text numbered 75. Early Xerox rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with a tear running horizontal to the final leaf with gold prong binding. N.p. unknown
1969réf. 146583Rome: Pegaso 1969. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Text in English. A bleak retelling of the siege of Masada by Roman troops in 74 AD leading one thousand Jews to commit suicide in order to avoid death at the hands of the Roman soldiers. An early career script by noted Italian screenwriter Nicola Badalucco who was best known for "The Damned" 1969 which won an Oscar for Best Screenplay. Set in the Masada fortress in Israel. Pink titled wrappers. Title page present noted as Film treatment with credits for screenwriter Nicola BADALUCCO. 147 leaves with last page of text numbered 145. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two gold brads. Pegaso unknown
1965réf. 146545N.p.: N.p. 1965. Draft script for the 1965 Yugoslavian made-for-television film first aired on November 15 1965. With a few manuscript ink annotations throughout mostly noting deletions and grammatical revisions. Text in English. An aging actor recalls his experiences twenty years earlier during World War II in particular remembering an older artist nicknamed "Maestro" who encouraged him to pursue his dream of acting. Set and shot on location in Warsaw. White untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for director Jerzy Antczak and story credits to Zdzislaw Skowronski. 65 leaves with last page of text numbered 64. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with light rusting on the front wrapper likely from a paper clip bound with two silver brads. N.p. unknown
1968réf. 146530N.p.: N.p. 1968. Draft script for the 1968 film here under the working title "Tenderly." With a business card clipped to the first leaf. Laid in with the script is a typed two-page overview of director Franco Brusati's prior screenwriting and directorial credits. Text in English. After 15 years apart a neurotic doctor reconnects with his childhood sweetheart a free-spirited young woman. Set in Italy. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters FRANCO BRUSATI and ENNIO DE CONCINI and translator John Francis Lane. 137 leaves with last page of text numbered 134. Carbon typescript rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus internally side stapled our first encounter with this practice and bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
