Country: Italy
Year: 1994
Duration: 28'
Daniele, a young writer, and Alice, his woman companion, move to a very particular apartment building in the early 1900's. Daniele gradually finds out about the tradition-curse of the building: ever since the building was built, whenever a baby is born, a man - inexorably - dies. It is that disquieting figure - Angelo, the doorman and keeper of all the buildings secrets - who tells him this. From the instant when Daniele finds out that he is about to become a father he is more and more convinced that this blessed event will be the cause of his death. Strange and obsessive omens seem to confirm the inevitable finale.
Biography
film director
Antonello De Leo
Antonello De Leo graduated from DAMS at Bologna with a thesis on the documentary. His short films have been entered in the larger Italian and foreign short film festival. He received the quality award of the Ministry of Tourism and the Performing Arts for Lettura in nero.
FILMOGRAFIA
Lettura in nero (16mm, 23'), Fabio Carpi: l'amore necessario per il cinema (video, 31'), Giro Tondo.
Cast
& Credits
Director: Antonello De Leo.
Screenplay: Francesca Panzarella, Antonello De Leo.
Director of photography: Giuseppe Schifani.
Editor: Franco Letti.
Music: Paolo Vivaldi.
Cast: Matteo Belli, Piero Vivaldi, Cecilia Dazzi, Luciano Cozzi, Leo Gullotta.
Production company: Antonello De Leo, Francesca Panzarella.
Screenplay: Francesca Panzarella, Antonello De Leo.
Director of photography: Giuseppe Schifani.
Editor: Franco Letti.
Music: Paolo Vivaldi.
Cast: Matteo Belli, Piero Vivaldi, Cecilia Dazzi, Luciano Cozzi, Leo Gullotta.
Production company: Antonello De Leo, Francesca Panzarella.