RAI Trade; a candidate to the Golden Bear in the line-up
Caesar Must Die [+see also:
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interview: Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
film profile] , in competition at the Berlin Film Festival, tops the list of films brought by Rai Trade to the German event’s European Film Market. The film by brothers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, who are returning to the festival after the screening of La masseria delle allodole [+see also:
trailer
film profile] in the Berlinale Special section of the 2007 edition, is a docu-fiction experiment shot entirely in the high security section of the Rebibbia prison in Rome (see the article).
The catalogue of the Italian public TV’s commercial arm for the Italian and international market offers the best of the season’s RAI production and co-production. Ivan Cotroneo’s Kryptonite! [+see also:
film review
trailer
making of
interview: Ivan Cotroneo
film profile], screened in competition at the latest Rome International Film Festival; Massimo Venier’s One Day More [+see also:
film review
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film profile] , a comedy set in Milan and New York which has had takings of €3,862,000; Carlo Vanzina’s Ex 2: Still Friends?, €4,949,000 at the Italian box office; Giuliano Montaldo’s The Entrepreneur [+see also:
trailer
film profile] , about an Italy steeped in the great crisis of recent years.
RAI Trade also plans to screen Furio Scarpelli’s Tormenti [+see also:
trailer
film profile], the original first work by the nephew of the legendary screenwriter Furio Scarpelli, who used his comic sketches for this film.
Completing the line-up are Lorenzo Garzella e Filippo Macelloni’s The Lost World Cup, based on the famous story by Osvaldo Soriano, "El hijo de Butch Cassidy"; The Arrival of Wang [+see also:
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film profile] by the Manetti Bros., who explore the sci-fi genre (coming out on March 9, 2012).
RAI Trade will announce three films in post-production at the Berlin Market: The Day of the Siege directed by Renzo Martinelli; Fairytale by Ascanio Malgarini e Christian Bisceglia; A Closer Day - working title) first work by Leonardo Di Costanzo.
(Translated from Italian)
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