WATER TO THE ROPES

ACQUA ALLE CORDE

By Paolo CONSORTI

ARTEX FILM - as SALES All rights, World

Comedy - Completed 2022

On the occasion of the 500th anniversary of Pope Sixtus V’s birth, The Mayor asks Angelo to realise a show based on famous events of Pope Sixtus’s life; Angelo hires a musical group that, despite being really high level, disrupts the religious spirit of the works and makes it more absur and funny.

Festivals
& Awards

Boden International Film Festival 2022
Official Selection
London Movie Award 2022
Official Selection
Italian Comedy Festival 2023
Finalist
    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Comedy
    • Countries
    • ITALY
    • Duration
    • 100 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Paolo CONSORTI
    • Writer(s)
    • Paolo CONSORTI
    • Producer(s)
    • Opera Totale OPERA TOTALE, Ph Music Worx PH MUSIC WORX
    • Synopsis
    • Montalto Marche, 2021. On the occasion of the 500th anniversary of Pope Sixtus V’s birth, the mayor oh his native village hires a religious musicals’ author from Marche, Angelo Santini. The Mayor asks him to realise a show based on famous events of Pope Sixtus’s life and insists on this show having a big appeal and requests that Angelo find a theatre company famous enough to catch media’s attention. So Angelo hires a musical group that, despite being really high level, disrupts the religious spirit of the works and makes it more absurd and funny.