THE COLDEST ROOM - Short Film 20' - 2021

Direction: Lorenzo Corvino

Cast: Marco Rossetti, Andrea Sartoretti, Giulio Cristini, Margherita Laterza, Chiara Mastalli, Niccolò Senni, Claudia Salvatore, Antonio Covatta, Fabrizio Bordignon, Federico Palmieri

Screenplay and series subject: Cristiano Malacrino and Daniele Zed Berretta

Photography: Emanuele Zarlenga

Assistant director: Tiziano Grasso

Scenography: Giulia Paris

Costumes: Marina Roberti

Direct sound engineer: Iacopo Pineschi

Assembly: Mario Marrone

Music: Land

Sound Designer: Francesco Catitti

General organizer: Daniele Bellucci

 

Synopsis:

Attilio is a middle-aged man who works as a necrophore in the hospital. He has an empathic relationship with corpses and closing with the living. This happens with Lucia, a nurse he has been in love with for years and to whom he writes numerous letters that he cannot deliver. A sudden pandemic multiplies the number of deaths and Carlo is joined by Attilio, a young assistant who will lead him to face his social problem and find the courage to confess to Lucia.

 

Awards and Acknowledgments:

Globo d’Oro 2021

Best Short Film “Prato Film Festival 2021”

Best Script “Francigena Film Festival 2021”