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MDC - Maschera di cera (1997)
Country
of Origin: Italy / France
Year of Production: 1996
Running Times: 94 mins 11 sec (UK -
video (uncut)) 98 mins (Italy - theatrical)
Format: colour 35mm
Ratio: 1.85:1
Sound: Dolby
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: I.F.F. Italian International Film /
Cine 2000 / Mediaset / France Film International / The
Ministers Council - Department of the Arts / The Banca
Nazionale del Lavoro (Section for Cinema and Theatre SpA)
Producers: Giuseppe Colombo
Presented By: Fulvio Lucisano, Dario Argento
Production Manager: Tommaso Calevi
Unit Manager: Cristina Romagnoli
SCRIPT
Screenplay: Lucio Fulci, Daniele Stroppa
Story: Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, Daniele Stroppa
Novel: The Wax Museum by Gaston Leroux
DIRECTION
Director: Sergio Stivaletti
Assistant Director: Michele salimbeni
2nd Assistant Director: Giuseppe Cerabino
French Unit Director: Charles Lahaye
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Sergio Salvati
Cameraman: Franco Bruni
1st Assistant Camera: Gianfranco Torinti
2nd Assistant Camera: Federico Angelucci
Steadicam Operators: Giovanni Canevari, Pietro Plaia
Paris Crew Camera: Jean François Gondre
Gaffer: Stefano Marino
French Unit Gaffer: Franck Coquet
Electricians: Giovanni Maria Gambella, Gianni Gentili,
Giuseppe Meloni, Marco Raimondi, Luigi Pasqualini,
Gianluca Terlizi, Severino Tramontani
French Unit Electrician: Jerome Penzinni
Generator Operators: Marco Cartocci, Carlo Lamoratta,
Mario Lamoratta
French Unit Generator Operator: Abdel Meziane
Key Grips: Roberto Bagalà, Claudio Pezzotti
French Unit Key Grip: Albert Bonomi
Grips: Massimiliano Anzellotti, Fabio Caramico, Patrizio
Emidi, Sergio Gabrielli, Luciano Giuseppone, Walter
Pavia, Sergio Rossi, Ivano Rugieri
Stills: Franco Vitale
Prints and Processing: Augustus Color S.A.S
Technical Equipment: Arco Due Sr.l.
Lights: Ditta Petracca
Negatives: Kodak S.p.A.
EDITING
Post Production Supervisor: Stefano Voltaggio
Editor: Paolo Benassi
Assistant Editors: Flora Elisa Algeri Bricoli, Letizia
Caudullo
Edited On: Avid
MUSIC
Music: Maurizio Abeni
Orchestra Director / Orchestrations: Maurizio Abeni
Music Recordist: Marco Streccioni
Music Production Assistant: Roberto Bongiovanni
Music Publisher: EMI Music Publishing Italia Srl
SOUND
Sound: Riccardo Palmieri
Boom Operator: Piero Fondi
Dialogue Recorded By: Gambit International
Dialogue Recording Directed By: Robert Rietti
Sound Effects: Studio 16
Dubbing Director: Aldo Massasso
Italian Version Recording: International Recording
Sound Mix: Fausto Ancillai
Mag Stock: Sound Service di Frugis Stefania
MAKE UP AND
COSTUMES
Key Make Up: Bernadette Grampa
Key Hair: Bruno Benjamin Russ
Costumes: Stefania Svizeretto
Assistant Costumes: Luca Grande
French Unit Assistant Costumes: Franoise Lotiron
Wardrobe: Bertilla Silvestrin
Costume Suppliers: Annamode 68; Sartoria Teatrale e
Cinematografica Roma; 'Il Cotume' (Rome); N.H.S. Srl -
Costumi Teatrali Roma; Nori Enzo Sartoria Abbigliamento
Forniture Militari; Sorelle Ferroni & C. Srl;
Stamigna Bazar SNC; Nicolosi Salvatore
Footwear: Arditi; C.C.T. Srl - Calzature Cineteatrali
Jewelry: Gioielli L.A.B.A. Roma
SPECIAL MAKE UP
EFFECTS
Life Casts and Special Effects Make Up: Barbara
Morosetti, Benoit Lestang
Assistant Special Effects Make Up: Misha Koopman
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects and Computer Graphics: Sergio Stivaletti
Special visual and Sculptural Effects: Sergio Stivaletti
Titles and Opticals: Penta Studios
DESIGN AND SET
CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Massimo Antonello Geleng
Assistant Art Director: Antonella Fulci
Set Decorator: Giacomo Calò Carducci
Assistant Set Decorator: Francesca Romano Tomassini
Props Management: Media Show Time, Laura fiorucci,
Tiziana Bonacchi
Prop Masters: Giuseppe Cancellara, Maurizio Iacopelli
Assistant Props: Paolo Iacopelli, Giuseppe Quinizi,
Roberto Petroni
Set Dressers: Franco De Masi, Barbara Morosetti, Fabio
Unger
Set Furnishings: Cine Ottocento Srl; Arredamenti
Cineteatrali G.R.P.; Sanchini Srl; E. Rancati Srl;
Pagliaro Giancarlo
Artistic Supervisor and Sculptor: Francesco Di Nunzio
Construction: In Scena Srl; Ditta Cori Carlitto Amedeo
MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisor: Maria Rosaria Cilento
Financial Consultant: Paolo Di Gravio
Production Secretary: Riccardo Folgore
Key Production Assistant: Mauro Nobili
Production Assistants: Massiliano Di Giuliani, Cristiano
Di Meo, Claudio Ionni, Giuseppe Gambella, Corrado
Mantoni, Giancarlo Rebiscini
Paris Crew Production Assistant: Alain Tourriol
Production Accountant: Benito Mancini
Crowd Scenes: Silvia Spoletini
Unit Publicist (Production): Paolo Paggetta
Unit Publicist (Distribution): Annarosa Morri
Insurance: Studio M for Cinesicurtà Srl
Italian Version Consultant: Lorenzo Ciccorelli
Catering: Ristorante 'Da Gigi' di Luigi Parrillo
Transport: FratelliCartocci; Consorzio Trasporti Cin.
LOCATIONS
Locations: Via Cola di Rienzo, Rome, Italy; Rome, Lazio,
Italy; Cinecitta, Rome, Italy; Stivaletti Studios, Via
Tor Cervara, Rome, Italy
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thanks To: Banca Nazionale del Lovoro Settore 35 Roma
Nord; Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Ag. 22 di Roma; La
Sortoria del Terziere Mezule di Narni; L'Accademia di
Costume e Moda di Roma; Helen Marlen Srl; Zanaboni
S.N.C.; Banci Firenze Srl; Richard Ginori 1735; Nason
Moretti Srl
CAST
Robert Hossein (Boris Volkoff)
Romina Mondello (Sonia Lafont / Marta Volkoff)
Gabriella Giorgelli (Francesca)
Daniele Auber (Luca)
Umberto Balli (Alex)
Gianni Franco (Inspector Palazzi)
Romano Iannelli (pathologist)
Giuseppina Lo Vetro (the madame)
Riccardo Serventi Longhi (Andrea Conversi)
Aldo Massasso (Inspector Lanvin)
Antonello Murru (museum caretaker)
Sonia Topazio (nurse)
Valery Valmond (Giorgina)
Massimo Vanni (Victor)
Rosa Pianeta (Anna's mother)
Omero Capanna (the monster)
Sabrina Pellegrino (Elena / Elaine)
Luca Mernè (Giovanni)
Goffredo Unger ( the puppeteer)
Stefania Fidotti (Anna)
Loretta Cester (girl in waiting room)
Salvatore Cammuca (gypsy)
Maria Asiride, Ginevra Casini, Caterina Cuomo, Angela
D'Ambra, Federica Leuter, Antonella Sannite, Elena
Marchesina, Michela Paolucci, Elisabetta Rocchetti,
Andreina Sirena (madame's girls)
Sergio Stivaletti (brothel client - uncredited)
PLOT SUMMARY
Paris, 1900: a masked
killer is on the loose. Armed with a metal claw, he
attacks and murders a young couple, ripping out their
hearts, little realising that he is being watched by his
victims' daughter, Sonia. Twelve years later, a wax
museum is opened in Rome and features as its centrepiece
a grisly recreation of the crime. A young man bets his
friends that he can stay the night in the museum but is
found dead the next day. Soon, other victims are being
found across the city as the wax museum adds more figures
to its displays...
AVAILABILITY
Finland
Theatrical Distributor: Future Film
Italy
Theatrical Distributor: Italian International Film
Spain
Theatrical Distributor: Sociedad Kino Vision S.L.
UK
Video Distributor: Film 2000 (FM 2003)
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Finland
Rating: K-16
Germany
Rating: 18
Italy
Rating: VM18
Portugal
Video Rating: M/16
Singapore
Rating: R(A)
Spain
Rating: 18
UK
Video Rating: 18
TIMELINE
1996
July
9: Shooting begins
August
13: Shooting ends
1997
April
4: Italy - theatrical release
July
25: UK - theatrical release
October
20: UK - video release
December
10: Spain - theatrical release
1998
February
Day Unknown: Portugal - shown at Fantasporto Film
Festival
April
2: Singapore - theatrical release
September
19: Sweden - premiered at the Fantastisk Film Festival
Lund
November
Day Unknown: Finland - video release
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
La maschera di Cera -
shooting title
Il terrore della maschera di cera -
shooting title
The Terror of the Wax Mask - shooting
title
Gaston Leroux's The Wax Mask
The Wax Mask - UK video title
LINKS
SEE ALSO
House of Wax (1953)
The Terminator (1984)
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
Shivers no.45 p.16 (UK)
illustrated review
BOOKS
Art of Darkness pp.254; 292; 299
illustrated review (by Chris Gallant); credits; video data
KEYWORDS
wax-museums; waxworks; serial-killers; rome
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