Davide Bassan

Filmes

The Lost World Cup
Art Direction
The film reconstructs the mysterious story of the 1942 Patagonia World Soccer championship, never acknowledged by the official sports organizations, and which for decades have remained shrouded in legend without the winner ever being known.
Faccio un salto all'Avana
Production Designer
Giallo: Refens do Medo
Production Designer
A modelo americana Celine é sequestrada em Milão durante a Semana da Moda. O autor é um serial killer conhecido como Giallo e que faz suas vítimas passarem por um verdadeiro calvário. Linda, irmã de Celine, deixa o assunto nas mãos do inspetor Enzo Lavia, que deverá encontrar a garota antes que ela sofra o terrível final das vítimas anteriores.
Shadow - Na Escuridão
Production Designer
Um soldado sai do Iraque e parte em uma aventura de bicicleta pelos Alpes para recomeçar a vida. No caminho, ele conhece uma bela jovem, mas são atormentados por caçadores.
Dr. Clown
Set Designer
A Whole Life Ahead
Production Design
Now 25, brilliant Marta seems to have her whole life ahead after majoring in philosophy, but she has to face the ugly truth for young graduates in Italy: a complete lack of work opportunities outside of temp jobs. While babysitting for single mother Sonia, she starts to work at the call center of a company selling junk to housewives, quickly rising through its ranks and experiencing first-hand the fanatical and exploitative competition culture pushed on young employees. Around her revolve other people, like delusional supervisor Daniela, her boss Claudio, fragile coworker Lucio, and well-meaning but inconsistent union official Giorgio.
Tutte le donne della mia vita
Production Designer
Mensagem do Além
Production Designer
Um suspense que mistura romance e conta a história que vai se tornando perturbadora com o tempo, por mexer com um tema completamente sobrenatural. Laura Harring vive feliz em uma fazenda ao lado de seu companheiro. Tudo ao seu redor parece ser perfeito até o dia em que ele desaparece sem deixar nenhum vestígio. É quando ela descobre que está grávida e decide ter o filho. O pai nunca volta e estranhos fatos levam a acreditar que talvez tudo o que viva não é real, ou que a criança seja filho de um fantasma. Nessa confusão mental, ela era de lutar consigo própria para manter a sanidade e descobrir sozinha o que faz e o que não faz parte da realidade.
Lezioni di volo
Production Design
A pair of teen friends – known as "Chicken & Curry" because they are virtually inseparable – fail their high school finals and try to cover it by claiming that Curry is in the midst of an identity crisis that can only be solved by a visit to his ancestral homeland, India. While the ruse works wonderfully on their parents, this impromptu journey of self-discovery takes an unexpected detour when Curry locates his biological sister and remains captivated by the country he first despised, and Chicken falls for an older doctor working for Médecins Sans Frontières.
Vermelho Como O Céu
Production Designer
Anos 70. Mirco (Luca Capriotti) é um garoto toscano de 10 anos que é apaixonado pelo cinema. Entretanto, após um acidente, ele perde a visão. Rejeitado pela escola pública, que não o considera uma criança normal, ele é enviado a um instituto de deficientes visuais em Gênova. Lá descobre um velho gravador, com o qual passa a criar estórias sonoras.
Dias de Abandono
Production Design
Olga's life is shattered when her husband leaves her. This makes her fall into a period of self-degradation and self-destructive behaviors.
Come Into the Light
Production Design
In 1990s Palermo, Pino Puglisi is a priest from the neglected Brancaccio neighborhood dedicated in helping kids to get off the streets and creating an embracing place of hope and solidarity in his church, which means trouble for the local Mafia. He continues his solitary fight until the bitter end.
La repubblica di San Gennaro
Production Designer
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
Production Designer
The Tulse Luper Suitcases reconstructs the life of Tulse Luper, a professional writer and project-maker, caught up in a life of prisons. He was born in 1911 in Newport, South Wales and presumably last heard of in 1989. His life is reconstructed from the evidence of 92 suitcases found around the world - 92 being the atomic number of the element Uranium. The project includes three feature films, a TV series, 92 DVDs, CD-ROMs, and books.
The Cruelest Day
Production Designer
Ilaria Alpi, a young, Italian war-corespondent, was on a dangerous mission in Somalia. While she covered the civil war, she also discovered a big and secret international enviromentscandale. Together with her cameraman she was killed in the streets of Mogadishus March, 1994. The film is based on a true story.
The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair
Production Designer
A reconstruction of the bankruptcy of the Banco Ambrosiano bank and its liaisons with the Vatican and the Masonry through its president Roberto Calvi, notoriously found dead under the Blackfriars Bridge in London in June 1982.
Johnny the Partisan
Production Designer
After the 8th September 1943 north of Italy is occupied by Germans. Italian army collapsed and the soldiers are escaped to the mountains trying to set up a resistance. Many civilians did the same and Johnny, an English literature student, is among them. Johnny avoids to band together the red partisans (communists) and tries to be part of the azure bands (former regular soldiers). But in both cases he is deluded by the partisan bands and discovers that the partisan war is less poetic and genuine that he thought. At one point anyway the partisans free Alba from Germans. When the city falls again in German hands Johnny escape with Ettore and Pierre. But, one after another, German army and Italian fascists captures the partisans and Johnny will pass the winter alone and isolated. He then finds the way to participate to one of the last attack to occupants, in fact the war will be over two months later.
Lupo mannaro
Production Designer
Lupo Mannaro, based upon the novel by Carlo Lucarelli, is a psycho-thriller revolving around the police commissioner Romeo who is obsessively convinced that the unsuspected Engineer Velasco, well known and respected in his milieu, is a dangerous serial killer. Romeo together with his determined assistant Grazia Negro and police superintendent Rago starts investigating with the help of the famous criminologist Del Gatto. The commissioner will often find himself in difficulty but won't give up the investigation due to his obstinacy and his strong vocation. The case slowly turns itself into a personal challenge between Romeo and Velasco, with unpredictable moves as well as strategies of defence and attack.
Open Sea
Production Designer
For personal and humanitarian reasons, Edoardo, a Ligurian sea captain, agrees to run a shipment of arms to Bosnian rebels for a shady Russian in Toulon who calls himself Riffaud. Edoardo's lover Clara wants him to quit the sea and Riffaud's wife warns Edoardo not to trust her husband, but Edoardo takes the job anyway. Sailing up the Adriatic, the crew threatens mutiny when they learn they must dock in a war zone. Once in port, little goes as Riffaud promised, and Edoardo must travel with a translator to the rebels' mountain stronghold to get payment for the crew. The war is all around them as Clara waits at home and the translator begs passage to Italy.
The Princess and the Pauper
Production Designer
A fairy tale about a twin princess and a prince who where seperated after their birth.
The Cave of the Golden Rose 5
Production Designer
In this last episode princess Fantaghirò ends up in a parallel dimension fairy land full of kids. Here the princess must fight against a villain called "Nameless".
Alisea and the Dream Prince
Production Designer
Alisea and her brothers have been captured by Azaret, an evil wizard. Alisea escapes the castle and meets the young Prince Demian, with whom she falls in love. The spirit of the source promises that they will always be together if they are to drink from its source. Alisea is again caught by the magician, and Demian has to return to his father's cone, which aims to turn him into a warrior. Seven years later, Demian becomes a warrior, but has not forgotten Alisea, who he sees in his dreams. Azaret tries to prevent Demian and Alisea from begin together.
Viva San Isidro
Production Designer
With Closed Eyes
Production Design
In the Tuscan countryside at the end of the 19th century, Pietro, the shy son of a tyrannical landowner, falls in love with Ghisola, a peasant girl with no family. His father has her sent away. Years later, the two meet again: still in love with her, Pietro would like to marry her, but she has become the mistress of a married man.
On the Dark Continent
Set Decoration
In the 1950s, a big stir was made by a book (and its corresponding movie) called The Ugly American. Its subject was the grievous damage done to local cultures by well-meaning but essentially clueless (and frequently arrogant) representatives of the U.S. Since then, the phenomenon of cultural damage cause by arrogant tourists and visitors has been demonstrated to be something everyone is capable of. In this thoughtful, comic drama, the subject is Italians overseas. In this film, Malindi Kenya is the playground of rich Italians.
American Ninja 5: O Pequeno Ninja
Production Designer
Joe Kastle (David Bradley), um exímio lutador faixa preta nas artes marciais, se une a Hiro (Lee Reyes) um órfão ninja de 12 anos numa sensacional luta para libertar um cientista e sua filha das garras de um industrial que quer roubar a fórmula de um produto químico, capaz de liquidar a humanidade. O Garoto e seu mestre contam somente com eles mesmos para enfrentar os bandidos e suas incontáveis armas.
Over the Line
Production Design
Having had a one night stand with an obsessive prison inmate, the college professor teaching his prison literary soon lives the nightmare of her decision.
Over the Line
Editor
Having had a one night stand with an obsessive prison inmate, the college professor teaching his prison literary soon lives the nightmare of her decision.
O Quebra-Cabeça
Production Design
A homicide detective realizes that the brutal murders committed by a mysterious serial killer he's after have something to do with the late husband of a beautiful widow.
The Cave of the Golden Rose
Art Direction
In the middle of a war between two kingdoms queen died tragically while giving birth to her third daughter. The king wanted a male heir to his throne and torn by the death of his wife, decides to sacrifice the girl and leads to the Cave of the Golden Rose to give her to the monster. The child is saved by the White Witch who promises her a wonderful future. With a rebellious temperament, the princess, named by his father Fantaghiro behaves like a tomboy. But one day she must confront the enemy, the king Romualdo, which is in love with her.
Crack
Production Designer
Although the drug is present in this film, the Crack this movie is about is, metaphorically, the crack in society which all the protagonists inhabit in a rundown neighborhood in Rome.
Millions
Art Direction
Billy Zane leads a pack of money-grabbing relatives who try to take over his ailing uncle's industrial empire.
White Hunter
Production Designer
After a man's wife is killed by a panther, his only reason to live becomes revenge, which slowly consumes him.
The Little People
Production Designer
Time to Kill
Art Direction
1936, Italian army is invading Ethiopia. Lieutenant Silvestri suffering toothache decides to reach the nearest camp hospital. But the lorry has an accident and stop near a rock, so Silvestri continues by walk. On his way he meets and rapes a wonderful young Ethiopian. He also wound her when he shot to a wild animal, and later kills her to avoid further pain. When he finally reaches the hospital, he realizes he gets probably leprosy. Trying to escape from Ethiopia Silvestri will kill again. But surprises aren't still over.
The Mask of Satan
Production Designer
In this loose remake of Black Sunday (1960), a group of skiers in Northern Italy land in a huge crevasse where they find the body of a long dead girl covered by a mask. Out of curiosity and nothing better to do they remove the mask and start playing games with it. Turns out this dead girl is the witch Anibas who had been condemned to die by burning and the mask put on her face to prevent her return.
Terror na Ópera
Production Designer
A young opera singer is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.
Demons 2 - Eles Voltaram
Art Direction
Um grupo de pessoas se vê encurralado dentro de um prédio de segurança máximo quando Sally (Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni), que está fazendo 16 anos, no décimo andar, é possuída por um demônio que sai da televisão de seu quarto. Hannah (Nancy Brilli), que está quatro andares abaixo, não sabe o que lhe espera porque os demônios, sedentos por sangue humano, começam a se libertar e ganhar vida.
You'll Die at Midnight
Production Design
Nicola, a cop, spies on his wife Sarah buying sexy black panties and realises that she is having an affair. Following a violent confrontation, he leaves her. Immediately after, whilst taking a shower, Sarah is stabbed to death with an icepick. Believing it to be an simple crime of passion, the police assign Inspector Pierro Terzi to bring his former colleague in. But Professor Anna Berardi, a criminal pyschologist who is friends with both men, believes the Nicola is innocent. She suggests that the real killer is Franco Tribbo, a maniac known as "The Midnight Killer" who supposedly died in a hospital fire several years previously. Terzi is not conviced but Nicola is killed and the murders continue...
Demons: Filhos das Trevas
Production Designer
Berlim Ocidental, Hanna e Kathy, duas jovens, vão à uma sessão de cinema de terror. No entanto, uma misteriosa máscara contamina parte dos espectadores, tornando o filme real. Os zumbis, saídos do filme, começam a perseguir os contaminados em busca de carne humana, tornando a sessão um pesadelo.
Christmas Holidays
Set Decoration
Christmas holidays on the snow of Cortina D'Ampezzo. Mario, a guy from Rome who has not much money, falls in love with the American Samantha, the girlfriend of hypochondriac Roberto. Billo, a singer and a playboy, meets Ivana: she's married with a rich man, Donatone, but in the past she had a flirt with Billo, who wants to reignite the flame.
The General of the Dead Army
Production Designer
In the early 1960s, nearly 20 years since the Second World War ended, an Italian general, accompanied by a priest who is also an Italian army colonel, is sent to Albania to locate and collect the bones of his countrymen who had died during the war and return them for burial in Italy. As they go deeper into the Albanian countryside they find they are being followed by another general who is looking for the bodies of German soldiers killed in World War II.
Massimamente folle
Set Decoration
The film presents a series of unrelated "pictures": a police commissioner who, faced with four friars stripped by two women, must decide whether they are real or false friars (but he can't); a professor who, suffering from acute dysentery, is dismissed for unworthiness by the Institute Council; a football referee trying to escape the ire of angry fans; an endless marathon in Piazza Navona; a true but crazy producer, a not crazy but fake producer and a group of actors who want to take revenge on one and the other; a "club of toasts" that spends its time toasting to this and that, to elect new members and honorary members; finally, a censorship commission that, aboard an old and very battered car, fails to reach his workplace.
Death in the Vatican
Set Decoration
A hermit who has had contact with terrorists is planning to kill the Pope by poisoning.
From Corleone to Brooklyn
Assistant Production Design
Maurizio Merli takes up a familiar role as Commissioner Berni; a cop who puts his life on the line to transport a witness from Corleone to New York City in order to testify against a mob boss on trial for murder. Along the way, Berni and his prisoner face a series of traps set up by the Mafia.
From Hell to Victory
Assistant Production Design
In 1939, at a Paris café, six friends of various nationalities vow to meet again at the same spot after the end of WW2.
Suspiria
Assistant Art Director
Susan é uma jovem americana que viaja para a Europa para estudar numa prestigiada escola de Balé. Desde o primeiro dia, porém, ela começa a se assustar com estranhas situações que ocorrem no local que a fazem crer que há bruxas por todas a parte.
Robbery Roman Style
Production Designer
After scoring big in a high-profile bank robbery, a gang of Milanese criminals has to hide in a monastery.