original title:
Imago Mortis
directed by:
cast:
Geraldine Chaplin, Lorenzo Pedrotti, Franco Pistoni, Alberto Amarilla, Alex Angulo, Leticia Dolera, Oona Chaplin
screenplay:
Stefano Bessoni, Luis Alejandro Berdejo
cinematography:
editing:
set design:
costume design:
music:
Zacarias M. de La Riva
producer:
production:
Pixstar, with the support of Film Commission Torino Piemonte
distribution:
country:
Italy
year:
2009
film run:
109'
format:
colour
release date:
16/01/2009
They say that in 1600s, long before the invention of photography, a scientist named Fumagalli, was obsessed with the idea of reproducing images. He discovered that by killing a victim and removing his eyeballs it was possible to reproduce on paper the last image imprinted on the person's retina. He named such tecnique "Thanatography". Today, the same kind of gruesome ritual and abominable crimes recur within the walls of an international school of cinema...