

The Assignation
1953-06-15 · 8 min · ★ 5.7
A figure cloaked in black and wearing a white mask wanders Venice, carrying a single rose. The entity boards a gondola to make much of its journey via the canals of the city. Its ultimate meeting and presentation of the rose will be a declaration of love of one kind in the meeting actually symbolizing death.
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- Curtis Harrington
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- United States of America
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- Released
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