BRUNO NICOLAI / ブルーノ・ニコライ / BRUNO NICOLAI FOR JESS FRANCO / CD

Digitmovies is re-releasing on Digipack box contains 5 CD the soundtracks composed by
Bruno Nicolai for the Jess Franco’s movies: “A virgin among the living dead”, “99 women”,
“Nightmares come at night” and “Eugenie – De Sade’70” (on CDs).

CD 1

A VIRGIN AMONG THE LIVING DEAD

SOUNDTRACK
The CD open with a suspenseful and mysterious theme given by an introduction of harp with
echo, celesta, in order to develop itself in a chaotic, much modern and rhythmic motif, with

sacred flavour given by a liturgical organ (tr.1). This score features several atonal music
themes for strings with additional distorted electric guitar. Bruno Nicolai has written a
wonderful love theme for the main character of Christine, a sweet and melancholic theme
performed by the crystal voice of Edda Dell’Orso. “Lounge” style music does not lack like the
elegant orchestral bossa vocalized by Edda Dell’Orso, pieces for solo piano and the rock-
dance floor music, between sacred and profane, for the scene of the satanic ritual.

DIRECTOR AND CAST
Directed by Jess Franco.
Cast: Christina Von Blanc, Howard Vernon, Britt Nichols, Paul Muller, Anne Libert, Jess
Franco.

THE PLOT
The student Christina travels from London to the castle of her family for the reading of the will
of her father that she has never known and recently committed suicide. On the arrival, she
meets her weird Uncle Howard, his wife Abigail and his daughter Carmencé and Linda, a
blind girl and a mute servant. She starts entwining daydreams and nightmares with reality.
When she has an encounter with the spirit of her deceased father, he tries to warn her to
leave that place that is evil, but it is too late.

CD 2

NIGHTMARES COME AT NIGHT

SOUNDTRACK
For this movie Bruno Nicolai has written an OST of experimental kind, perfect as background
for the protagonist’s recurrent nightmares. “Tra sogno e vita”, the original main titles, after an
intro of ethnic sound effects presents a medley of experimental motifs, developed later in the
OST, among them, in a theme for atonal strings. Bruno Nicolai alternates experimental
atmospheres with piano and percussions, with suspended motifs for guitar, organ and light
percussions and with a magic love theme. Lounge style music is also enclosed that reflects
the trends and the life style of those days with two long tracks, a slow one with sax, organ and
rhythmics and a shake dancefloor music that, after a Spanish flavoured guitar introduction, is
developed with organ, distorted guitars and drums.

DIRECTOR AND CAST
Directed by Jess Franco.
Cast: Diana Lorys, Paul Muller, Jack Taylor, Colette Giacobine, Soledad Miranda (con lo
pseudonimo di Susan Korda).

THE PLOT
Anna a young striper in a sleazy cabaret is seduced by Cinzia that invites her to move to her
house. Anna is disturbed by nightmares, where she kills a man with a spear. Meanwhile a
couple that lives in the house next door spies Cinzia.

CD 3A – 3B

EUGENIE DE SADE ’70

SOUNDTRACK
Originally in year 1969 an album on Gemelli label with 14 selections was issued (some in
mono sound, some in stereo sound). For this publication we used every take found in the
original master tapes. We could assemble the entire 108 minutes long score and alternate
versions on two discs set.

DIRECTOR AND CAST
Directed by Jess Franco.
Cast: Marie Lijiedahl, Maria Rohm, Jack Taylor, Christopher Lee, Paul Muller, Maria Luisa
Ponte.

THE PLOT
Eugenie, an innocent young woman, is taken to an island paradise where she initiated into a
world of pleasure and pain controlled by the sinister Dolmance. But when she surrenders to
her own forbidden fantasies, Eugenie becomes trapped in a frenzy of drugs, sadomasochism
and murder.

CD 4

99 WOMEN

SOUNDTRACK
Bruno Nicolai has written and conducted a symphonic score that alternates mysterious,
dramatic and action themes to other romantic and sensual ones given by the sax and the
orchestra that reprise instrumental variations of the main theme song “The day I was born”.
For this publication we used every take found in the original master tapes.

DIRECTOR AND CAST
Directed by Jess Franco.
Cast: Mercedes McCambridge, Maria Schell, Rosalba Neri, Maria Rohm, Herbert Lom, Jess
Franco.

THE PLOT
Off the coast of Panama, there is an island with a female penal colony, run by a sadistic
superintendent. When several prisoners mysteriously die, leading to a breakout and mutiny,
an extensive investigation of the horrific events begins.