Juraj Herz's delirious phantasmagoria of dark desires With delirious visuals conjured by cinematographer Jaroslav Kucera (Daisies,Diamonds of the Night) and often described as ‘the last film of the CzechoslovakNew Wave’, Juraj Herz's delirious tale of terror is a surreal phantasmagoria of dark desires and splintered minds –a twisted Czech take on What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and Poe's The Black Cat. Based on a short story by Aleksandr Grin, (the 'Russian Poe'), Morgianais the story of twin sisters, Klára and Viktoria who live a life of decadent opulence, somewhere in the late 19th century. Klára is charming, trustingand beautiful, whilst Viktoria is wicked, sadistic, bursting with hate and jealousy -and who hatches a terrible revenge by slowly poisoning her more popular sister. As the toxin takes hold, Klára begins to lose grip on her sanity... Part fairytale, part Gothic horror, Morgiana is a full-blown hallucinatory experience from the director of the chilling The Cremator, Oil Lamps and Beauty and the Beast. "An elegant, beautifully executed,post-’60s essay on sex and repression" Time Out