Project Detail

The Fever

Synopsis

An Englishwoman wakes up in the middle of the night in a small hotel in a poverty-stricken foreign city where a civil war is being fought. She has a fever, and tries to remember why she has returned to this frightening country.

During the night, she starts to retrace her happy childhood and her relatively happy adult existence as a kind, hard-working professional woman who loved her family and friends, appreciated music and the arts. But she is also retracing the unusual events that have led her to this place, and how the people she has met on that journey began to change her understanding of the world. Now, in this lonely hotel room she is struggling with a new and unpleasant perception of herself and her life.

As the dawn breaks, her fever subsides and with it comes an honest appraisal of herself. With gut-wrenching clarity she has come to understand her responsibility for the violence of poverty and exploitation she sees in the world.

Details

Year: 2006
Type of project: Features
Running time: 83 mins
Format: 35mm
Director: Carlo Nero
Producer: Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Blum
Editor: Mel Quigley
Screenwriter: Carlo Nero, Wallace Shawn
Director of Photography: Mark Moriarty
Sound: Stjepan Suskovic
Composer: Claudio Capponi
Principal cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Angelina Jolie, Michael Moore, Joely Richardson, Rade Sherbedgia, Geraldine James

Genre

Literary Adaptation Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Shawn-Fever Productions Ltd.

26 Prebend Mansions
Chiswick High Road
London W4 2LU
UK

T+44 (0)20 8994 0992

prebend36@aol.com

carlo@dissentprojectsltd.com

Sales Company

HBO Enterprises

T+1 (212) 512 1000

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