Red Krokodil
Drama / 80 min / 2012.
Red Krokodil tells the story of a man who, almost as a synecdoche, is meant to represent an ordinary man, or perhaps all men. It is the story of a man addicted to Krokodil that suddenly finds himself alone in a post-nuclear city similar to Chernobyl. His physical decay caused by the massive intake of drugs develops parallel to his inner world, as reality mixes with his hallucinations. The result is a film that uses the Krokodil as a metaphor of destruction.
Movie deals with various themes, from environmentalism to the more “mundane” generically related to the use of drugs, starting with a small introduction on Krokodil and its fertile existence due to the enrichment that the pharmaceutical industry in Russia will take. But the story is a pretext that I use to focus on psychological condition voted annulment from themselves and from the surrounding world, a vision apparently static, repetitive, which sees only a present and a future. The breakup of the body that this drug causes, helped me to symbolize a breakup too visually interior unstoppable.
-Domiziano Cristopharo
Director: Domiziano Cristopharo.
Writer: Francesco Scardone (screenplay).
Stars: Valerio Cassa, Viktor Karam, Brock Madson.
