#Julian de Laserna

[pierppasolini]

Le lac des morts vivants (1981) // dir. Jean Rollin, Julian de Laserna

[weirdlookindog]

Le lac des morts vivants (1981) - French poster

AKA Zombie Lake; Zombies' Lake; Lake of the Zombies; The Lake of the Living Dead

[mariocki]

Le lac des morts vivants (Zombie Lake, 1981)

"Stories about the lake of the damned go back to the Inquisition. They used to celebrate Black Masses back in the Middle Ages: they would sacrifice children, which they threw into it so as to appease the spirits which otherwise rose out of their watery grave in search of blood. And we too, we've used it as an unholy grave during the war. But the soldiers we threw in were not a sacrifice... and they're coming back with a vengeance."

[gurumog]

Zombie Lake (1981) Le Lac des Morts Vivants Eurociné Dir. Jean Rollin

Pascale Vital as the Skinny-dipping Girl Antonio Mayans (aka Robert Foster) as the Zombie Nazi

Certain prints of Zombie Lake credit director Jean Rollin under the pseudonym of J.A. Laser. The film was co-directed by Julian de Laserna, who went uncredited. Henri-Jean Alliet handled the underwater photography, who clearly shot his scenes in a swimming pool; at times wall and floor tiles are clearly visible.

[80smovies]

[todayclassical]

January 04 in Music History

1549 Birth (baptismal) of French composer Eustache du Caurroy.

1553 Death of German composer Caspar Othmayr, at age 37 in Nuremberg.

1581 Birth of German composer Daniel Selich.

1590 Death of Italian composer Gioseffo Zarlino, at age 73.

1679 FP of Alessandro Scarlatti's first opera Gli Equivoci nel Sembiante at Teatro Capranica, in Rome.

1708 Bach receives a commission for a cantata celebrating the elections in Muhlhausen.

1715 German music lover, Johann von Uffenbach, in Venice, hears Vivaldi play violin and commissions concerto grosso.

1740 Birth of Swedish composer Carl Michael Bellman, in Stockholm. 

1751 Birth of composer Blas de Laserna.

1767 Birth of composer Johann Franz Volkert.

1781 Death of Bohemian composer Josef Mysliveček, at age 43, in Rome. 

1805 Birth of composer Georg Andreas Henkel.

1805 Death of German composer Johann George Tromlitz in Leipzig. 

1808 Birth of English conductor Michael Costa in Naples. 

1816 Death of composer Meingosus Gaelle, at age 63.

1827 Birth of American composer Lucien H. Southard.

1834 Death of French singer and composer Amelie Julia Candielle, at age 66.

1854 Death of composer Carl Ludwig Cornelius Westenholz, at 66.

1856 Death of soprano Anna Gottlieb in Vienna. 

1863 Birth of soprano Pauline De Ahna in Ingolstadt.  

1875 Birth of composer Raymond Moulaert.

1876 Birth of composer Victor Jean Leonard Vreuls.

1884 Birth of soprano Marie Sundelius in Karlstad.

1890 Birth of baritone Emil Treskow in Berlin.  

1892 Birth of Finnish critic and composer Yrjö Kilpinen in Helsinki. 

1893 Birth of American composer Bernard Rogers in NYC. 

1894 Death of German composer Louis Lazarus Lewandowski in Berlin.

1895 Death of composer Faustina Hasse Hodges, at age 71.

1897 Birth of Romanian composer Mordecai Sandberg. 

1900 Birth of soprano Claire Autenrieth. 

1903 Birth of composer Siro Cislino.

1904 Birth of composer Predrag Milosevic.

1912 Birth of Austrian conductor Erich Leinsdorf in Vienna. 

1916 Birth of composer David Vassall Cox.

1919 Death of mezzo-soprano Elizaveta Andreyevna Lavrovskaya. 

1924 Pianist Claudio Arrau makes his American debut.

1925 Death of French composer, pianist Marie Jaëll-Trautmann in Paris. 

1927 Birth of baritone Julian Moyle in Melbourne. 

1927 Death of composer Thomas Linnemann Laub, at 74.

1929 Birth of mezzo-soprano Lucia Danieli in Vicenza. 

1932 Birth of American pianist Ivan Davis in Electra, TX.

1933 Derat of tenor Bohumil Ptak. 

1934 Death of soprano Virginia Ferni-Germano. 

1934 Birth of Finnish composer Jouko Sakari Linjama.

1934 Death of Brazilian pianist and composer Ernesto Nazareth

1935 Birth of Finnish bass Martti Talvela in Hiitola Karelia Finland. 

1939 Birth of mezzo-soprano Renata Babak in Kharkiv. 

1940 Birth of baritone William Workman in Valdosta. 

1941 Birth of tenor Vladislav Piavko. 

1945 FP of Alan Hovhaness' Lousadzek 'Coming of Light' for piano and strings, in Boston.

1947 Death of Italian composer Luigi Russolo in Cerro di Laveno. 

1952 Death of bass-baritone Friedrich Plaschke. 

1954 Death of composer Vaclav Vackar, at age 72.

1956 Death of Danish composer and conductor Peder Gram, at age 74.

1962 Birth of Serge Dorny, chief executive and artistic director of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

1968 Birth of American composer and teacher Paul Mathews.

1964 Death of tenor Alexander Vesselovsky. 

1964 Death of soprano Angela Kolniak. 

1974 Death of composer Mihail Andricu, at age 79.

1997 Death of American composer Ross Lee Finney, at age 90, in Carmel, CA.

2001 Death of Romanian-born, Greek-French composer Iannis Xenakis in Paris.

 2003 Death of American bass Jerome Hines, in NYC.

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[pierppasolini]

Le lac des morts vivants (1981) // dir. Jean Rollin, Julian de Laserna

[pierppasolini]

Le lac des morts vivants (1981) // dir. Jean Rollin, Julian de Laserna

[gurumog]

Zombie Lake (1981) Le Lac des Morts Vivants Eurociné Dir. Jean Rollin

Marcia Sharif as Katya Moore, intrepid reporter.

Certain prints of Zombie Lake credit director Jean Rollin under the pseudonym of J.A. Laser. The film was co-directed by Julian de Laserna, who went uncredited.