Country: Canada
Year: 1992
Duration: 100'
Johann is a student of the Tolzbad ButIer Gymnasium, a school which is presided over by a sadist. Johann is engaged to Klara Trotta, his childhood sweetheart. One day his sunny existence is darked when he has an incestuous dream about Zenaida, his mother Johann develops an unhealthy obsession with the beautiful matriarch. In the meanwhile Zenaida has fallen in love with the reclusive, yet dashing, Count Knotgers. Johann's brother, Griggors, a recent graduate of the Tolzbad ButIer Gymnasium is also in love with Klara. But Klara is not easily wooded. She has an unhealthy attraction to her own father. Complicating matters further is the fact that Griggors has an older brother, Franz, a cripple who is mysteriously locked away in the family attic. Franz receives visits from the Blind Ghost of his long-dead father. The Blind Ghost attempts to warn his family of impending doom.
Biography
film director
Guy Maddin
Guy Maddin (Winnpeg, Canada, 1956) has been working for years as a director, screenwriter and video artist, bringing to the screen and into his installations his passion/obsession for the cinema of the past, whose atmosphere and clichés he tries to recreate in a playful and provocative manner. He has made over forty shorts, which have won prizes at festivals throughout the world (including My Dad Is 100 Years Old, which he presented at the Torino Film Festival in 2005), and has directed much-appreciated feature films, including Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary (2002), The Saddest Music in the World (2003), Keyhole (2011) and the documentary My Winnipeg (2007).
FILMOGRAFIA
Careful (cm, 1992), The Pomps of Satan (cm, 1993), Sea Beggars (cm, 1994), Imperial Orgies (cm, 1996), Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (cm, 1997), The Hoyden (cm, 1998), The Heart of the World (cm, 2000), Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary (2002), Fancy, Fancy Being Rich (tv, 2002), Cowards Bend the Knee (2003), The Saddest Music in the World (La canzone più triste del mondo, 2003), A Trip to the Orphanage (cm, 2004), Sombra Dolorosa (cm, 2004), My Dad Is 100 Years Old (cm, 2005), My Winnipeg (doc., 2007), Keyhole (2011).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, fotografia e montaggio: Guy Maddin.
Screenplay: George Toles, Guy Maddin.
Art director: Jeff Solylo.
Music: John McCulloch.
Sound: Russ Dyck.
Cast and characters: Kyle McCulloch (Griggors), Gosia Dobrowolska (Zenaida), Sarah Neville (Klara Trotta), Paul Cox (Knotgers), Brent Neale (Johann), Victor Cowie, Katya Gardner, Vince Rimmer, Michael O'Sullivan , Jackie Burroughs.
Director of Production: Andre Bennett.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Cinéphile Limited, 388 King Street West, Suite 211, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5V 1K2, tel. 4165811251, fax 416-5811382.
Screenplay: George Toles, Guy Maddin.
Art director: Jeff Solylo.
Music: John McCulloch.
Sound: Russ Dyck.
Cast and characters: Kyle McCulloch (Griggors), Gosia Dobrowolska (Zenaida), Sarah Neville (Klara Trotta), Paul Cox (Knotgers), Brent Neale (Johann), Victor Cowie, Katya Gardner, Vince Rimmer, Michael O'Sullivan , Jackie Burroughs.
Director of Production: Andre Bennett.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Cinéphile Limited, 388 King Street West, Suite 211, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5V 1K2, tel. 4165811251, fax 416-5811382.
