L' IMBALSAMATORE

The Embalmer / El embalsamador

Italy, 2002 - 35 mm. O.V.: Italian. Subtitles: Spanish. color. 1h41'.

Director: Matteo Garrone
Screenwriter : Ugo Chiti, Matteo Garrone, Massimo Gaudioso
Cinematographer: Marco Onorato
Music: Banda Osiris
Editing: Marco Spoletini
Producer: Domenico Procacci
Production Company: Fandango. Viale Gorizia 19 Roma 00198 Italy +39 06 85 21 85 fandango@fandango.it
Distribution Company: Fandango Distribuzione. Italy
Cast: Ernesto Mahieux, Valerio Foglia Manzillo, Elisabetta Rocchetti, Lina Bernardi, Pietro Biondi, Bernardino Terracciano

Peppino is a middle-aged taxidermist working for the Neapolitan mafia. Being rather short and unattractive, people always make fun of him. One day he meets Valerio, a handsome young man, and offers him to be his assistant. But when Valerio falls in love with Deborah, Peppino finds himself gripped with destructive jealousy.