11° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Italian Competition 1993 - Fiction
TORPORE INTERNAZIONALE
by Antonio Rezza
Country: Italy
Year: 1993
Duration: 21'
In a house sunken in mystery, cases of temporary asphyxia occur every night. There is little clear about these cases, except that they daze the houses luckless dwellers. They inhibit their actions and their personalities. A doctor of undoubted fame - with the help of the famous Eastern European chemist, Girarda - seeks to discover an explanation of this perennial torpor that afflicts the members of that household. Pretty soon the doctor, too, begins to be left a victim of the interruptions in breathing that multiply without any apparent motive. The doctor gets on top of the by-now dangerous situation by isolating night-time breathing from daytime breathing. However the night before the definitive diagnosis, the cases of asphyxia change from temporary to permanent. This brings an end to the search for truth.
Biography
film director
Antonio Rezza
(Novara, 1965) is a stage and film writer, novelist, and performer. Since the early 1990s, he has made numerous works – including five fiction feature films, a documentary, and over thirty shorts for cinema and TV – almost always in collaboration with Flavia Mastrella. The two of them received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice International Theatre Festival, and the “Rosa d'Oro della Milanesiana” award.
FILMOGRAFIA
La Beata mancata (cm, 1991), Fratello Kraus (cm, 1991), Il vecchio dentro (cm, 1992), Suppietij (cm, 1991), La divina provvidenza (cm, 1991), Larva (cm, 1993), Confusus (1992), Preoccupatio (cm, 1993), L’orrore di vivere (cm, 1993), Torpore internazionale (cm, 1993), Il piantone (cm, 1993), Escoriandoli (1994), Evolutio (cm, 1994), De civitate rei (cm, 1994), Mongana (cm, 1995), Represso SVHS (cm, 1995), Il telefonetto (cm, 1995), Zero a zero (cm, 1995), Psicosi multipla (cm, 1995), Raptus (cm, 1995), Fiorenzo (cm, 1995), Schizzopatia (cm, 1996), Delitto sul Po (1996), Troppolitani (cm, 1997-2000), Porte (cm, 1997), Virus (cm, 1997), L’handicappato (cm, 1997), Hai mangiato? (cm, 1997), Angeli negli occhi di Alberto (cm, 1998), Il Mosè Michelangelo (cm, 1999), Fummo (cm, 1999), Turo (cm, 1999), Milano, Via Padova (doc, 2001), Fotofinish 2 (2006), Il passato è il mio bastone (cm, 2008), Nell'aldilà (cm, 2008), Ottimismo democratico (2008), Troppolitani Fuori dove? (cm, 2010), Samp (2016), Molossi (cm, 2020), Autoritratto (cm, 2020), Il cristo in gola (2022).
Cast
& Credits
Director, screenplay and editor: Antonio Rezza.
Director of photography: Antonio Rezza, Flavia Mastrella.
Music: Franco Battiato.
Cast: Antonio Rezza, Armando Novara, Geraldine Vitullo, Flavia Mastrella, Luigia Stefanucci, Maurizio Catania, Fabrizio Fincato, Massimo Serra.
Production company and Italian distribution: Flavia Mastrella & Antonio Rezza, via Di Villa Neroniana 6, 00042 Anzio (Roma), tel. +39-06-9844834
Director of photography: Antonio Rezza, Flavia Mastrella.
Music: Franco Battiato.
Cast: Antonio Rezza, Armando Novara, Geraldine Vitullo, Flavia Mastrella, Luigia Stefanucci, Maurizio Catania, Fabrizio Fincato, Massimo Serra.
Production company and Italian distribution: Flavia Mastrella & Antonio Rezza, via Di Villa Neroniana 6, 00042 Anzio (Roma), tel. +39-06-9844834
