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THE CASE OF THE MASSIVE CODPIECE

THE MASSIVE CODPIECE

By Chastine KILDEBRO VESTERGARD CHRISTIANSEN

NOCTURNAL CUSTOMS LIMITED - as PROD

Comedy - Completed 2014

Let the game begin.

- Year of production
- 2014
- Genres
- Comedy, Social issues, Black comedy
- Countries
- DENMARK
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 25 mn
- Director(s)
- Chastine KILDEBRO VESTERGARD CHRISTIANSEN
- Writer(s)
- Chastine KILDEBRO VESTERGARD CHRISTIANSEN
- Cast
- Dan SCHLOSSER, Sandra VIRGINIA BEREZA, Søren ROSSEN, Jacob HOUMØLLE, Lukas MIKLIK-STOLAR, Mads KORSGÅRD, Mariann MARKENG, Frank MOTHE, Ida BØGELUND LARSEN, Lianne HATTEL, Christina DAHL, Mats ÖDMAN, Anna SØRENSEN, Anna MIA DALBERG, Kia KLENTZ NIELSEN
- Producer(s)
- Samuel WHEELER (Nocturnal Customs Limited)
- Synopsis
- Guillermo is a very theatrical, rich, eccentric and arrogant bachelor with plenty of ladies lining up to be with him. He throws an annual dinner party for his friends at Kronborg Castle. After the scandal of the last years party this year his friends hold their dinner party at Hotel Madam Sprunck. The party is a Shakespeare theme murder mystery where the guests are to act out roles. The many victims to the secret murderer.
  Tyler the waiter is a player, cocky, self-destructive and doesn’t give a fuck about his job. He is focused squarely on his next conquest, Ingrid. Ole is outwardly submissive in the relationship but in reality he is usually in control. He knows if he wanted to he could discard his young wife Ingrid and find himself a younger, more attractive woman, but he really loves her, and she really loves him. Although she is his testing his limits. Häkon has been having a secret affair with Ingrid and knows she is pregnant with his baby.
  The submissive façades drops away. Secrets and lies are hidden behind a veil of masks. Sexually voyeuristic games, jealousy and manipulation collide in this short film shot in Helsingør, Denmark. First time Director and Writer Chastine Kildebro Vestergard Christiansen debuts in this comedy of the grotesque. A co-production between Yummiversal Pictures (dk) and Nocturnal Customs ltd (nz) conceived and written in an apartment during Festival de Cannes 2014.
  The Case of the Massive Codpiece deals with themes of corruption, elitism, sexual power and control. The characters on the surface are superficial and conservative but beneath the bow ties and red dresses a nest of vipers waits to strike. The tension between the guests and the host builds to a confession of desire and guilt as they finally break down their barriers and reveal the darkness beneath. Will Ole and Ingrid’s marriage survive the night? What has happened to Häkon? Can Guillermo keep the party together as they break under the strain of their collective secrets?