Project Detail

Chaos and Cadavers

Synopsis

When a young newly-wed couple - the geeky, bespectacled Edward (Nick Moran) and the innocent but dangerously alluring Samantha (Keeley Hawes) - turn up at the majestic and remote country house hotel where they are planning to spend their honeymoon, they find that the place has been taken over by the high-spirited members of an Undertakers' Annual Convention. But their attempts at romance are quickly dampened as they become helplessly embroiled in an intriguing whodunit when the Head of the Funeral Directors' Association dies in bizarre circumstances.

Details

Year
2006
Type of project
Features
Running time
83 mins
Format
35mm
Director
Niklaus Hilber
Producer
Kurt Steiner, Mark Haeberli, Lauri Apelian
Co-Producer
Kurt Steiner, Mark Haeberli, Lauri Apelian
Editor
Michael Schaerer
Screenwriter
Niklaus Hilber, Drew Bird
Director of Photography
Tony Imi
Composer
Warren Bennett
Principal cast
Nick Moran, Keeley Hawes, Ian McNeice, Steve Huison

Categories

Production Status

Production Company

Matador Pictures LLP

18 Soho Square
London W1D 3QL
UK

T+44 (0)20 7025 8028

Sales Company

High Point Films & Television Ltd.

25 Elizabeth Mews
London NW3 4UH
UK

T+44 (0)20 7586 3686

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