Masqueraid

2004 Masqueraid

Written and directed by Francesca De Sapio

Eur Hide Park for Emergency ( Rome )

Two waiters, a cook, two young masters of ceremony with wings, that stand on a pulpit, a strange girl with an evening dress and a diamond tiara on her head, are waiting for guests. A long table, in a U shape is set up elegantly. The girl with the tiara goes compulsively in and out of the room while she adds to her corner of the table a bunch of tabloids that she browses manically, causing ODDO, one of the two waiters to explode. ODDO is probably the angriest waiter in the world.

A delicate meek intense Latin American priest is correcting a mysterious old very famous book that, he promised to himself, will become a best seller again, no one knows of which book he is talking about.

Then the guests arrive, they are all dressed from different periods in history, in such a variety of costumes, that they think they have been invited to a masked ball. Some believe they are in an Embassy, others a consulate, a congress, another thinks the party has been given for his own birthday. The only correct information is that they all arrived in room 211F.

While they enter, periodically the two winged masters of Ceremony interrupt their presentation, with a gag from an advertisement spot on some product, that reminds us of existing products.

In the mean time, at intervals, a young soldier appears announcing a different war, some as ancient as world war one.

When the last guest enters, a young woman with the left side of her body all covered with blood, who attacks violently ODDO threatening to kill him, all are terrorized...

Which secrets hide all these guests?

Why have they been invited to this strange banquet?

CAST

Elisa Alessandro - Marco Calvani - Linda Di Pietro
Ketty Di Porto - Omar Elfishawi - Giovanni Izzo
Giovanna Martini - Ginevra Natale - Andrea Planamente
Marco Russo - Livio Salvi - Gabriele Salvi
Filippo Sbalchiero - Michael Schermi - Paolo Stella
Sergio Valastro - Sonia Viviani

CREW

Costumes ISABELLA MONTANI
Lighting LUCA BARBATI
STEFANO VALENTINI
Executive Producer VITO VINCI
Produced by DUSE INTERNATIONAL
Assistants Director ANTONELLA ALFANO
AUGUSTO MARCHETTI
Sound DANTE RENZETTI
EMANUELE DI CAVIO
Organization EUR MICHAEL SCHERMI
Production Coordinator CARMEN SPARTA'
Set Photografer CARLO BELLINCAMPI
Graphics MOUSEART
Press Agent DUSE INTERNATIONAL