HOW HARRY BECAME A TREE
synopsis
The small village of Skillet in the west of Ireland, 1920's. Harry Maloney, as weathered and craggy as the landscape that surrounds him, is tormented by dreams in which he is transformed into a tree, only to be cut down and rendered into coffins. Harry lives with his son Gus in a falling-down house on the edge of town, a house whose decay began when Harry's favourite son died violently a couple years earlier, soon thereafter followed into the grave by his heartbroken mother. Harry believes that “a man is measured by his enemies”. So he picks George, pub owner, entrepreneur and undoubtedly the most powerful man in town, as his personal adversary.
original title: | How Harry Became a Tree |
country: | Italy, Ireland, United Kingdom, France |
sales agent: | Global Screen GmbH (a brand of Telepool GmbH) |
year: | 2001 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Goran Paskaljevic |
film run: | 100' |
release date: | IT 01/03/2002, FR 10/07/2002, IE 26/07/2002 |
screenplay: | Goran Paskaljevic, Christine Gentet, Stephen Walsh |
cast: | Colm Meaney, Adrian Dunbar, Cillian Murphy, Kerry Condon |
cinematography by: | Milan Spasic |
film editing: | Petar Putnikovic |
art director: | Lesley Oakley |
costumes designer: | Carol Betera |
music: | Stefano Arnaldi |
producer: | Riccardo Tozzi, Marco Chimenz, Liam O'Neill, Clive Parsons |
production: | Cattleya, Paradox Pictures, MACT Productions, Film and General Productions (UK) |
distributor: | Istituto Luce Cinecittà, Swift (FR) |