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The
Divine Comedy - Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso - is known
as the greatest Christian story ever told after The Gospel.
Dante's Inferno Documentary, LLC presents two films by Dino Di Durante - Dante's
Inferno Documented and Dante's Inferno - Abandon All Hope. Both films, produced and directed by Boris Acosta are unique and a breakthrough about Dante's Inferno, the first part of the The
Divine Comedy masterpiece, written by Dante Alighieri
during his exile from Florence, in Italy during 1302-1311. Dante's
Inferno Documented and Dante's Inferno - Abandon All Hope are not only a tribute to Dante Alighieri,
the best Italian poet of all time, but also to Gustave Dore,
the best French illustrator of all time.
Dante's
Inferno Documented
is a 2-hour feature film, while Abandon All Hope is a 35-minute short film exclusively in black and white. The story is the same, the one of a man that went on a journey through
the worst of the afterlife, Inferno, to finally consumate his love relationship at the gate of Paradise (sequel).
Dante's
Inferno Documented is a compelling four-quadrant film presented as a visual and narrative journey to Hell told by over 30 scholars and artists from both Italy and the United States, featuring Oscar and Golden Globe nominee Eric Roberts, Golden Globe nominee Jeff Conaway and Italian Legend Arnoldo Foà, among many others. The Infernal story is presented circle by circle in an unprecedented and unique way that no other documentary has done up until now. Visually, it features over 50 black and white illustrations by Gustave Dore, over 50 original color illustrations from the upcoming Dante's Inferno comic book and magazine
series as well as a some dramatic animation excerpts from the upcoming animation short film Dante's Inferno Animated featuring Eric Roberts as Dante.
The main purpose of this documentary is to present Dante's story in an easy and understandable way to encourage people to read The Divine Comedy book. This production, as well as all independent productions by Boris Acosta, will give 10% of its revenue to charity to promote The Divine Comedy throughout the world.
Dante's Inferno Documented, now in its final stages of post-production, started filming in Italy (Rome, Florence and Bellagio) in February, 2008 and continued in Los Angeles, United States in March, August, December 2008, January and February 2009 (including the film narration by Jeff Conaway). Additional filming was done in Los Angeles during April 2010, including Eric Roberts' voice for the animation clips, which will be featured in this film. Finally, we also filmed Monsignor Marco Frisina from The Vatican, and actor Arnoldo Foà in Rome, Italy during May 2010. This production will finish additional filming during the summer of 2010.
Dante's Inferno Documented is expected to premiere in Europe and North America in 2010 at major film festivals, soon to be announced in the "Festivals" page.
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