Press kit - The Masque of The Red Death

The Masque of the Red Death based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe Making Guillaume MOITONShort film by Guillaume MOITON Running Time: 17 minutes Internet link: http://www.2017flms.fr/ Production Produced by 2017 FILMS - Lyon Vincent MICHAUD, Sylvain REBOUX Year of production: 2013 Available formats: DVD, digital fle (AppleProres, H264, MKV, ...)Synopsis French with English subtitles A strange epidemic has invaded the country of young Earl Prospero. With some well-chosen cour- tiers, he has entrenched himself in his magnifcent Contacts castle in order to escape this evil. A few months Guillaume MOITON later, ignoring the disease, he decides to organize a 06 62 95 11 27 - Guillaume.moiton@gmail.com great masked ball, excusing all excess... 2017 FILMS – Lyon Death, however, is indifferent to all these tricks… Vincent MICHAUD 06 61 19 91 24 - vmichaud08@gmail.com Muriel KAY 06 20 66 81 81 – muriel.kay@free.fr 2 PA G E The Masque of the Red Death based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe The Short Story by Edgar Allan Poe This short story was published for the frst time in 1842. A revised version was published in 1845, part of a collection of «Extraordinary News Stories» translated into French by Charles Baudelaire. It is part of the tra- dition of the Gothic novel, and was often analyzed as an allegory about the inevitability of death.