SCREENING
- Where: Palazzo Fruscione / Sala Ingmar Bergman
- When: 20/12/2019, h 24:00
| Original title | Danza macabra |
| Direction | Sergio Corbucci, Antonio Margheriti |
| Year | 1964 |
| Nation | Italy, France |
| Length | 87` |
| Script | based on a novel by Edgar Allan Poe |
| Screenplay | Giovanni Grimaldi, Bruno Corbucci |
| Cinematography | Riccardo Pallottini |
| Editing | Otello Colangeli |
| Music | Riz Ortolani |
| Costume design | Ottavio Scotti |
| Special effects | Antonio Margheriti |
| Production | Vulsina Film |
| Distribution | Globe International Film - Unidis |
| Cast | Barbara Steele, Georges Rivière, Margarete Robsahm, Silvano Tranquilli, Arturo Dominici, Umberto Raho, Silvia Sorrente, Giovanni Cianfriglia, Benito Stefanelli, Salvo Randone |
SINOPSYS
In a London club the journalist Alain Foster interviews Edgar Allan Poe on stories of terror and death. Lord Thomas Blackwood intervenes with an amazing bet: one hundred pounds for the incredulous reporter if he has the courage to spend the night between the first and the second November in his castle. The young man accepts, and enters the gloomy building, crowded, that night, with the dead resurrected to relive the story that led them to their death. The young man, unaware that those ghosts have a new victim every year as a condition to return to the next year’s appointment, accepts the love of Elisabeth, one of the revives …