15/02/2013 - With a background working for Eagle and Moviemax, he plans on relaunching the business wit quality films with high audience appeal

Paolo Cesari, who previously worked with Eagle and Moviemax, is Movimento Film’s new commercial director.

Movimento Film, which has already produced several film, as well as distributed others (Alexandra by Alexander Sokurov, L’estate di Martino [+see also:
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Starting on April 24, Movimento Film will distribute comedy Benur by Massimo Andrei, starring Nicola Pistoia, Paolo Triestino and Elisabetta De Vito, already presented during the Rome Festival. In May, the company will distribute The Future [+see also:
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Coming out this autumn will be La madre (a provisional title), loosely based on short novel “La madre” by Noble prize winner Grazia Deledda, which tells the story of a man’s torments as he is divided between passion and faithfulness and the morbid obsessions of a mother. The film, for which shooting has just come to an end, is produced by Flavia Parnasi from Combo Produzioni, directed by newcomer Angelo Maresca and stars Carmen Maura, Stefano Dionisi, Luigi Burruano and newcomer Laura Baldi.

(Translated from Italian)