31/05/2005

At the end of the summer, on September 12th, Maurizio Sciarra begins shooting his new film, Sonata a Kreutzer, which will be filmed in Switzerland and Italy.
The project, produced by Lumière & Co. and Rai Cinema, is an adaptation of Tolstoy's 1890 novel which rails vehemently against upper class notions of marriage.

In the cinematic version of Tolstoy’s story, Sciarra and co-writer Claudio Piersanti use bad weather, heavy snow and closed airports to force Andrea W., Robert D., and all the other passengers to spend a night at Lisbon airport then at a hotel, waiting for the skies to clear and allow the planes to take off once more. From the bar at the airport to the one at the hotel, Andrea talks the night long, telling Robert about his life, his marriage, and the circumstances which, laced with jealousy, led him to kill his wife Antonia.

Maurizio Sciarra started his career as a documentary maker. Then, he became the first assistant of the great director Luigi Comencini. In 1997, he directed his first feature, La stanza dello scirocco (The Room of the Desert Wind), starring Giancarlo Giannini, a film followed in 2001 by Alla rivoluzione sulla 2CV (Off to the revolution by 2CV), Golden Leopard winner in Locarno.

(Translated from Italian)