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HOUSE OF CARDS

HOUSE OF CARDS
by David Fincher
Country: USA
Year: 2013
Duration: 109'


Congressman Francis Underwood is the Leader of the Democratic Party in the United States House of Representatives. Cunning and scheming, he moves deftly among corrupted and easily corruptible politicians, journalists, and unscrupulous lobbyists. In his twenty years of career, he has managed to place the people connected to him in the most prestigious offices: his objective is becoming Secretary of State. His conniving wife Claire is by his side, a partner in life and in schemes, whom he loves “more than sharks love blood.” House of Cards is the first TV series produced by the streaming company Netflix.

Biography

film director

David Fincher

David Fincher (Denver, CO, USA, 1962) started working as a special effects expert for George Lucas’s company Industrial Light & Magic, and as a director for commercials and music videos. He directed his first feature, Alien3 in 1992, and received acclamation for his subsequent film, Seven (1995). This was followed by many other movies including, among others, the controversial Fight Club (1999) and Zodiac (2007), which was in competition at Cannes. He received an Oscar nomination for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), and several more nominations for The Social Network (2010), which won a Golden Globe and earned Aaron Sorkin an Academy Award for best writing. House of Cards was recently awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for outstanding directing.

FILMOGRAFIA

The Beat of the Live Drum (doc., 1985), Alien3 (id., 1992), Seven (id., 1995), The Game (The Game - Nessuna regola, 1997), Fight Club (id., 1999), Panic Room (id., 2002), Zodiac (id., 2007), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Il curioso caso di Benjamin Button, 2008), The Social Network (id., 2010), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium - Uomini che odiano le donne, 2011), House of Cards (tv, ep., 2013).

Declaration

film director

“The governing idea behind any bureaucracy is the funding of that bureaucracy, the perpetuation of that bureaucracy. Any group of homo sapiens, if they’re united under an ideal, believe that their protection of that ideal, or the furthering of that ideal, is as important as the ideal itself. It’ll just happen. What interested me was Francis is… Francis is not amoral – actually, I guess he is amoral – but he’s apolitical. He’s in it for the ground-acquisition of people like himself.”

Cast

& Credits

REGIA
David Fincher
SOGGETTO
dall’omonimo romanzo di/from the novel of the same title by Michael Dobbs e dalla omonima serie tv/and the tv series of the same title
SCENEGGIATURA
Beau Willimont
FOTOGRAFIA
Eigil Bryld
MONTAGGIO
Bryon Smith
COSTUMI
Johanna Argan
MUSICA
Jeff Beal
INTERPRETI E PERSONAGGI
Kevin Spacey (Francis Underwood), Robin Wright (Claire Underwood), Kate Mara (Zoe Barnes), Corey Stoll (Peter Russo), Michael Kelly (Doug Stamper), Sakina Jaffrey (Linda Vazquez), Kristen Connolly (Christina Gallagher), Constance Zimmer (Janine Skorsky)
PRODUTTORE
Karyn McCarthy
PRODUZIONE
Media Rights Capital
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