What Have You Done to Solange?
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Italian film poster for What Have You Done to Solange?
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| Directed by | Massimo Dallamano |
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| Music by | Ennio Morricone |
| Cinematography | Aristide Massaccesi |
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| Distributed by | Constantin Film (West Germany) |
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| Language | Italian |
What Have You Done to Solange? (Italian: Cosa avete fatto a Solange?) is a 1972 Italian-West German giallo film directed by Massimo Dallamano.
Italian teacher Enrico Rosseni is having an affair with one of his lovely young students. While on an afternoon outing the two lovers learn that a fellow student is brutally murdered mere yards from them. Now other female students are being targeted by a killer with a sinister vendetta and Rosseni is looking like a suspect. The truth is that Solange was badly injured when her female classmates tried to give her an abortion, and she or someone close to her is looking for revenge.
What Have You Done to Solange? was an Italian and West German co-production, and credits itself as being based on The Clue of the New Pin by Edgar Wallace. The film bears very little relationship to the novel, with authors and film historians Kim Newman and Michael Mackenzie believing that it was marketed this way to sell the film to a German audience as part of the krimi film genre. The relationship to the genre is enhanced by the appearnce of cast members Joachim Fuchsberger and Karin Baal who appeared in several Edgar Wallace adapataions produced by Rialto Film in the 1960s.
Camille Keaton was cast in the film as Solange. Keaton had originally sent in photos for a casting call for a Franco Zeffirelli film. She was not cast in his film, but received a call from director Massimo Dallamano later to invite her in for the role. Keaton described working with Dallamano as challenging as she was only learning to speak Italian and he spoke very little English. For her role, Dallamano told her that she was looking for someone who looked frail and ordered her not to tan while filming.
What Have You Done to Solange? was released in both Italy and West Germany on March 9, 1972.Fulvio Lucisano stated that the film was the first giallo film to be shown at the Adriano Theaterw in Rome, which normally did not show films of the genre. In West Germany, it was released under the title Das Geheimnis der grünen Stecknadel where it was distributed by Constantin. The film has been released under various English-language titles, including The Secret of the Green Pins, The School That Couldn't Scream, and Who's Next?. It is most commonly known under the title What Have You Done to Solange?. In 2005, the Venice Film Festival had a day in honour of Fulvio Lucisano Day as part of its "Secret History of Italian Cinema" screenings, which included a screening of a restored version of What Have You Done to Solange?.
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