- BFI identifier763600
- Date2009 (Copyright)
2010-04-02 (Release) - Production countryBelgium, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, France, USA, United Kingdom
- Production companyJohan Grimonprez, Zapomatik, Nikovantastic Film, Volya Films, Flanders Audiovisual Fund, Stichting Nederlands Fonds voor de Film, NordMedia, Rotterdam Film Fund, ZDF - Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, ARTE, Hammer Museum's Artist Residency Program, The Nimoy Foundation, James Irvine Foundation, Beeldende Kunst Strombeek-Mechelen, YLE Co-productions, RaiSat, Anna Sanders Films, EURODOC, Forum IDFA
- SynopsisAlfred Hitchcock's persona is explored using TV and newsreel footage in a part mockumentary film which also reads his films of the late 1950s and early 1960s against their socio-political backdrop. (Synopsis) Set in Universal Studios, California, in 1962. Whilst working on the set of THE BIRDS, Alfred Hitchcock is called to the production office for an urgent message. When he arrives he encounters his doppelganger, who claims to be the real Alfred Hitchcock and threatens death on the grounds that your double should be killed before he kills you. Uses archive footage and Hitchock's own words to explore his preoccupation with doubles, often featured in his films, with Hitchcock and his doppleganger calculating the perfect murder of each other. Inspired by the Cold War Jorge Luis Borges novella `The Other'. (Synopsis)
- Genre
- CategoryFiction
- Subject
- Credits
- CastValerie-Anne Van Peel (Interviewer (Interview Ron Burrage))
Ron Burrage (Hitchcock double)
Mark Perry (Hitchcock voice)
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Title
Double Take (Original)
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