The Fever
Synopsis
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
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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
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Shawn-Fever Productions Ltd.
26 Prebend MansionsChiswick High Road
London W4 2LU
UK
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Sales Company
HBO Enterprises
T+1 (212) 512 1000
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