Private Project

THE GUARDIAN OF THE ICE

In a house, on the top of a snowy mountain, the driver of a cable car (Claus Lein) hides a woman with mental disorders, Cloris, at his home. The situation is deteriorating their lives because of her psychic disorders, so Claus decides to resumes his old experiments to nurse her, since he was an accomplished neurosurgeon with revolutionary ideas. The extraordinary event of the explosion of the star Betelgeuse offers a unique opportunity to put the theories he had abandoned into practice. The scientist kidnaps a girl who looks like Cloris and tries to use her as a test subject in his experiments. After his success on the girl, Claus is now ready to operate his beloved Cloris, but the secrets he had buried long ago come to light turning reality upside down

  • Salvatore Metastasio
    Director
  • Giulia Morgani
    Writer
  • Salvatore Metastasio
    Writer
  • LUXARTE srl
    Producer
  • NAIF FILM
    Producer
  • ALESSANDRO VANTINI
    Key Cast
  • GIULIA MORGANI
    Key Cast
  • PIETRO FAIELLA
    Key Cast
  • FABIO BALASSO
    Key Cast
  • PIETRO DE SILVA
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Feature
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 45 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    January 15, 2016
  • Production Budget:
    20,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Country of Filming:
    Italy
  • Language:
    Italian
  • Shooting Format:
    DIGITAL 2K
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Winter Film Awards
    New York
    United States
    March 1, 2018
    USA Premiere
    Best score
  • Trieste Science+Fiction Festival
    Trieste
    Italy
    November 4, 2017
    World Premiere
Distribution Information
  • Indistry
    Country: United States
    Rights: Video on Demand
Director Biography - Salvatore Metastasio

When he was 15 years old, he moved to Rome to attended Rossellini’s CineTv School. He started to work as a contemporary art movie editor, in Paris, after he graduated. In the year 2003 he attended the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisiòn de Cuba, in Cuba, graduating in screenwriting. Together with Naif Film Association, he started to produce and direct a trilogy docu-fiction, short-movies and web series. In association with many directors, he worked as cinematographer. After he directed “Cruel Tango”, a thriller tv movie, he co-produced and directed his first film “The guardian of the ice”.

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Director Statement

“THE GUARDIAN OF THE ICE"
The movie was conceived to let the audience into the labyrinth that is the protagonist's mind, where his mistakes of the past magnify his fear of facing the present.
The movie elements repeats themselves in different ways in every scene until we finally arrive to what seems like the labyrinth exit, which is a copy of its own entrance.
"Il guardiano del ghiaccio" uses the noir genre to let its audience into the most intimate rooms of a cold mountain cabin. The vision stages the "mental illness" of a schizophrenic character, accompanying the public towards the hope of a cure for such a dramatic illness.
The movie burns out, in the last hues of the spirit, like a supernova in space, wrapping the audience's mind in chaotic schemes.