Synopsis
Collector of cursed musicians, unreasonable murderers, fairground freaks, paranoiac revolutionaries, flatulists or suicidal anchorites, a patient in a psychiatric institution presents a gallery of the great names in history who haunt him.
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Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producer : YUZU Productions
- Foreign production company : Le Scarabée asbl
Full credits (8)
- Executive Producer : Christian Popp
- Screenwriter : Olivier Smolders
- Director of Photography : Jean-François Spricigo
- Music Composer : Manuel Smolders
- Editor : Olivier Smolders
- Foreign Producer : Olivier Smolders
- Sound Editor : Marc Bastien
- Special Effects : Quentin Smolders
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Bizarre, Portrait
- Themes : Fine arts, News story, Insanity
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : Belgium, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Minority French (Belgium, France)
- Production year : 2015
- Runtime : 24 min 40 seconds
- Production formats : Photographic camera
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 16/9
- Audio format : Stereo
- Rating restrictions : None
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