Movie: The Severed Heads

Top 10 Billed Cast

Raymond Devos
Raymond Devos

Denise Brossot
Denise Brossot

Rolande Polya
Rolande Polya

Alejandro Jodorowsky
Alejandro Jodorowsky

Saul Gilbert
Saul Gilbert

Jean-Marie Proslier
Jean-Marie Proslier

Margot Loyola
Margot Loyola

Michel Orphelin
Michel Orphelin

Jean Claude Sergent
Jean Claude Sergent

François Perrot
François Perrot

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    A short mime adaptation of a Thomas Mann story about a Parisian urchin who makes her living selling human heads.

  • Release Date

    1957-03-31

  • Average

    6.123

  • Rating:

    3.1 starts
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