City of Signs

2009 | 63 minutes | 5.0 ★ (1)

City of Signs
  • Overview

    Italy, March 1980. César travels to the ruins of Pompeii with the extravagant intention of recording psychophonies, supernatural echoes of the great eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed the city in the 1st century, but he does not succeed. However, on one of the tapes a strange phrase, much more recent, is recorded, words that César has already heard somewhere…

  • Release Date

    01 May 2009

  • DirectingSamuel Alarcón
  • Budget

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  • Revenue

    $0.00

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