Inferno (film, 1980)

Inferno is an Italian film carried out by Dario Argento, left in 1980, second shutter of the " Trilogy of Enfers" (or " Three Mères"), at the sides of Suspiria and the terza veined (the third mother).

Synopsis

Pink Elliot, young poetess newyorkaise, lives a building with the strange atmosphere. She buys an old entitled book " Tre Madri" (Three Mothers), written by Emilio Varelli, architect alchemist fallen into the lapse of memory. The book tells the meeting of Varelli with the three mothers of the Hells: MATER Suspiriorum (the Mother of the Sighs), MATER Lacrimarum (the Mother of the Tears) and MATER Tenebrarum (the Mother of Darkness). It builds a house with each one to them: with Friburg, with Rome and with New York. After having read the book, Rose starts to think that she lives in this third house of New York, where resides the third Mother and starts to be anxious and excavate the surroundings. She writes a letter with her Mark brother, studying in music in Rome, to ask him to come to her, but this letter falls initially under the eyes of a friend of Mark, which starts to get information and to worry and calls Mark to give the letter to him which returns to him. She is assassinated before to have been able to speak to him, Mark discovers the letter torn with the feet of its corpse and flies away for New York…

Around film

With this film, Dario Argento gives up the police kind for the horror supernatural.
Inferno as Suspiria is held in an urban environment bathed by the rain and ends in the fire of the building.
the dvd of film was available for a long time only to the the United States. It is only in October 2007, on the outlet side of the third shutter of the trilogy, the terza veined , that the film left in dvd to Italy and France, as well as a new remasterized edition of Suspiria.

Data sheet

Title: Inferno
Realization: Dario Argento
Scenario: Dario Argento and Daria Nicolodi
Original Idea: Dario Argento and Thomas De Quincey
Production: Claudio Argento
Musics: Keith Emerson, Giuseppe Verdi
Photography: Romano Albani
Assembly: Free Fraticelli
Country of origin: Italy
Format: Colors
Kind: Horror, thriller
Lasted: 101 minutes
Coming out date: 1980
Film prohibited with less than 16 years at the time of its exit in France

Distribution

Leigh McCloskey : Mark Elliot
Irene Miracle: Pink Elliot
Eleonora Giorgi: Sara
Daria Nicolodi : Elects Stallone Van Adler
Sacha Pitoeff: Kazanian
Alida Valli : Carol, the caretaker
Veronica Lazar: The nurse
Gabriele Lavia: Carlo
Feodor Chaliapin : Professor Arnold/Dr. Varelli
Leopoldo Mastelloni: John, the majordomo
Ania Pieroni: Studying in music
James Fleetwood: Cook
Rosario Rigutini: Man
Ryan Hilliard: Shade
Paolo Paoloni: Professor of music
Fulvio Mingozzi: Taxi driver
Luigi Lodoli: Bookbinder
Rodolfo Lodi: Old man
Dario Argento: Narrator

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