16° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
Regional Competition 1998

L'UOMO NERO (THE GROVE)

THE BOGEYMAN (THE GROVE)

Country: Italy
Year: 1998
Duration: 21'


One morning Ermine, a fifteen-year-old daydreamer, notices a strange house as he is walking around Drusacco. He decides to enter it, and after discovering a table with some axes, he suddenly has a vision of himself lying dead near a stream. As if by magic, an enchanted cavern leads him into a grove, where an unknown and obsure presence begins to torment him. Ermine finds himself in front of the "bogeyman", a Freudian hypostatis of his fears and his sense of guilt.

Biography

film director

Fabio Zuliani

Fabio Zuliani (Turin, 1974) is a poet, actor and director. He graduated in Art History specializing in the 1500's. He has been a guest on many radio and television shows ("Maurizio Costanzo Show", amongst others). He is also an expert on German expressionist cinema, in particular the works of Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau. Il vampiro and L'uomo nero are two sections of Play (Un film in III Atti) , the author's first professional full-length movie.

Cast

& Credits

Director, screenplay and editor: Fabio Zuliani.
Plot: Fabio Zuliani, dal suo racconto Jesus Saves. Fotografia e
Art director: Terence Lewd.
Sound: Giuseppe Perotti.
Music: Klaus Schulze, Franz Liszt, Krzysztof Penderecki, Olivier Messiaen, Richard Strauss.
Cast: Renato Ferrucci.
Production company: Alice Film Release, corso Vittorio Emanuele II 165, 10139 Torino, Italy, tel. +39-11-4333966.
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