Nightmare in Venice
Drama
3.6/10
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|91 min
Release Date: 1989-09-01
Overview - A brilliant surgeon and millionaire, married to a beautiful woman, and highly regarded in the society of Venice, wants more from life and searches for new sensations. Adapted from the 1926 novella Dream Story by the Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler.
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TheQuietSignal
6/10
A Nightmare in Venice is a low-budget, late-80s erotic thriller that loosely reconstructs the conceptual spine of Arthur Schnitzler’s Traumnovelle, later adapted by Kubrick into Eyes Wide Shut, but trades psychological ambiguity for explicit criminal conspiracy. Set against the Venice Carnival, the film follows Ricardo, a successful but internally dissatisfied cardiac surgeon who becomes entangled...
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