- Asudem
Asudem is USA-German
horror film fromDaryush Shokof . Asudem is the reverse writing of "medusa" indicates a surreal story of a woman (yangzom Brauen)in the woods, where she meets Satan experiencing a heavenly vision after consuming hallucinogenic mushrooms. The film is shot in black and white and entirely inBerlin , Germany in 2007.Plot
The film begins with a woman and her dog living in a destroyed train-station during a war we never see. The location, setting, and compositions of the film are similar with most other films by Daryush Shokof in which the location, situation or both is confined to one place with universal elements as if it could be any place on earth.The woman confronts strange happenings throughout the film as the intensity of the incidents increase in danger until she finally meets Satan himself who wants to finish her off.She decides to poison Satan by feeding him wild mushrooms in the woods and in the hope that he would have heavenly visions to suffocate him to death.
Cast
Yangzom Brauen
Joachim Paul Assboeck
Guido Foehrweisser
Narges Rashidi
Manuel Cortez
Benjamin Morik
Ernest Hausmann
Annabelle Mandeng
Araba Walton
Awards
Asudem won the best "horror-film" Genre award at the New York International Film and Video Festival in 2007 [cite news | title=Los Angeles March 2007 Awards | date=March 2007 | url =http://www.nyfilmvideo.com/2007/la-march/awards/la-march-2007-awards.htm | work =NYFilmVideoFestival | accessdate = 2008-10-04]
References
External links
*imdb title|0490081
* [http://www.ifvc.com/Asudem.htm Asudem at the International Film and Video Center]
* [http://www.itndistribution.info/sci-fi-horror/asudem.html Asudem at Independent film Distribution]
* [http://english.crew-united.com/index.asp?show=projectdata&ID=6305 Extended Cast and Crew Info]
* [http://www.beyondpersia.org/index.php/artists/details/daryush_shokof/ Info about the film's creator Daryush Shokof ]
* [http://www.asudem.godhattan.com Trailer]
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