original title:
La morte di pietra
directed by:
cast:
Alessandro Sini, Costantino Vitagliano, Sarah Maestri, Flavio Bucci, Max Parodi, Santa De Santis, Pietro Delle Piane, Emanuela Garrucio, Petra Khruz, Brando Giorgi, Enzo Storico
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country:
Italy
year:
2008
film run:
88'
format:
35mm - colour
release date:
10/05/2008
A young writer named Fabio takes up residence in a mountain chalet to write his new, unsettling novel on Girolamo Segato, an 18th-century Florentine who discovered a method for petrifying the human body but took the secret to his grave. Fabio is disturbed by a bothersome old woodsman whose chatter appears to make no sense, while the mysterious presence of a young woman holed up in the neighbouring home proves to be an even greater distraction …