Chiamami Salomé (Call Me Salome / 2005 Sestieri), feature film
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Chiamami Salomé <Italian> / Call Me Salome (2005) is a feature film (sound, color, 95m), directed by Claudio Sestieri.
~ Screenplay by Claudio Sestieri.
~ Film Music by Luigi Ceccarelli.
Abstract
An updated version of Oscar Wilde's Salome, in a contemporary setting.
Herod is a Neapolitan boss who runs The Last Emperor, a disreputable place, and Herodias is his kinky companion. Salome is a young, immature and beautiful girl, desired by many men including her stepfather Herod. John is a protester held in captivity by the friends of Herod; he begins to read the sacred texts to the point of losing his senses becoming "the prophet".
Cast
- Carolina Felline = Salome
- Ernesto Mahieux = Herod Antipas
- Elio Germano = John the Baptist
- Caterina Vertova = Herodias
- Genti Kame = Sirius
- Gilberto Idonea = Tigellinus
Production
Produced in Italy (2005).
Distributed in Italy (9 May 2008).
External links
Categories:
- 2005
- Fiction--2000s
- Fiction--Italian
- Cinema--2000s
- Cinema--Italian
- Feature Films
- Film Music
- Screenplays
- Italian language--2000s
- Second Temple Studies--2000s
- Second Temple Studies--Italian
- Second Temple Studies--Fiction
- Death of John the Baptist (subject)
- Salome (subject)
- Salome--fiction (subject)
- Salome--cinema (subject)
- Herodias--cinema (subject)
- Herod Antipas--cinema (subject)
- John the Baptist--cinema (subject)