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3 unusual facts about A Lizard in a Woman's Skin


A Lizard in a Woman's Skin

Carol has been visiting a psychoanalyst (George Rigaud) because of a string of disturbing dreams she's been having featuring her decadent neighbor, Julia Durer (Anita Strindberg).

Set in London, the film follows Carol Hammond (Florinda Bolkan), the daughter of a respected politician, who experiences a series of vivid, psychedelic nightmares consisting of depraved sex orgies and LSD use.

Homicidal sleepwalking

The 1971 Italian thriller A Lizard in a Woman's Skin involves a woman who thinks she may have murdered a neighbor in her sleep.


1712 in poetry

Shota Rustaveli, The Knight in the Panther's Skin first printed (originally written in the 13th century)

Begtabegishvili

The early 17th-century head of the house, Begtabeg, was a notable copyist who created one of the best manuscripts of the medieval Georgian epic The Knight in the Panther's Skin by Shota Rustaveli (Manuscript H-54, Georgian National Center of Manuscripts).

Demna of Georgia

The Georgian female poet Tamar Eristavi proposed, in 1988, a romantic though unreliable and otherwise unproved hypothesis identifying the famous Georgian poet Shota Rustaveli with Prince Demna who was allegedly in love with his cousin, Princess Tamar; survived the repressions and wrote his poem The Knight in the Panther's Skin (dedicated to Tamar) in exile under the assumed identity of Rustaveli.

Goldbeater's skin

Alexander Graham Bell used a drum of goldbeater's skin with an armature of magnetised iron attached to its middle as a sound receiver (see Invention of the telephone), and the North German Confederation printed 10- and 30-groschen postage stamps on goldbeater's skin to prevent reuse of these high-value stamps.

Joseph Thomas Clover invented an apparatus for the inhalation of chloroform in 1862 that consisted of a large reservoir bag lined with goldbeater's skin to make it airtight, into which a known volume of liquid chloroform was injected.

Grigol Robakidze

In her book Ali and Nino – Literary Robbery!, Tamar Injia claims that Ali and Nino: A Love Story by Kurban Said (Austria, 1937) is extensively plagiarized from, and owes much of its existence to The Snake’s Skin by Grigol Robakidze (Germany, 1928).

Shalva Nutsubidze

He was a well-known translator also: he translated The Knight in the Panther's Skin of Shota Rustaveli, Visramiani and other outstanding literary works in Russian.

The Ass in the Lion's Skin

About then there was also a false report that the animals had escaped from Central Park Zoo and were roaming the city.


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