SYNOPSIS

His daughter is dead. Victim of a tragic accident and now John Baxters life is unraveling.

John, a building restoration expert is viewing slides of his next commission, a church in Venice, when he notices an odd red figure sitting in one of the pews. A figure in a red hood. Uncertainly a premonition of disaster then sweeps him and he rushes to the garden where he finds his daughter still dressed in her shiny, red mac, in the pond, dead. Soon after the world starts to turn darker. After the funeral he and his wife continue to Venice to try and bury their grief under a carpet of work but events begin to take a life of their own and he finds himself unable to avoid being sucked into them.

Follow a tale of twists, psychological anguish and hope. Disaster, redemption and death. Find out just what the connectipon between the two sisters – one blind, the canals of Venice, Bishop Barbariggo the policeman that follows John Baxter and the glimpses of a little girl in a red mac that seems to haunt John Baxter as much as the water choked tunnels of Venice.


TRAILER


RELEASE DATE

December 09, 1973

DIRECTOR

Nicolas Roeg

WRITER

Daphne Du Maurier (story) & Allan Scott (screenplay)

COMPANY

British Film Institute (BFI)

GENRE

Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller

CERT

15

RUNTIME

110 minutes

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