The Story:
In the shadowy peaks of Switzerland, eccentric scientist Herbert Von Krantz (Jacques Dufilho) reigns over his Brutalist fortress Shandigor, where he has forged the Annulator—a device to nullify the world’s nuclear menace—with his devoted daughter Sylva (Marie-France Boyer) and lobotomized aide Yvan at his side, all under the watchful eyes of global spies hungry for his secret.
As suave agent Manuel (Jean-Louis Trintignant) seduces his way into Sylva’s heart to breach the citadel, rival factions erupt in chaos: Russians under the enigmatic Bobby-the-Goat, American operatives, and the eerie Baldies sect clash in a web of betrayal, turning Von Krantz’s dream of peace into a nightmare of espionage and greed that unravels his sanity.
Plunge into this surreal, paranoid thriller of the mid-1960s, where avant-garde frenzy meets Cold War dread in a scorched-earth finale—Von Krantz dooms his genius to destruction, freeing his daughter and lover to flee the ruins, leaving spies to scrap over ashes in a stylish nod to French New Wave intrigue.
