28/06/2024 - Produced by Rodeo Drive, the Italian director’s family drama is toplined by Stefano Accorsi and young actress Ginevra Francesconi

Ivano De Matteo has just wrapped filming on his new movie, Una figlia [+see also:
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The cast is led by Italian star Stefano Accorsi (a two-times David di Donatello-award-winner, who also bagged the Volpi Cup in Venice thanks to A Journey Called Love [+see also:
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Pietro is a middle-aged man – according to the official synopsis released by the film’s press department – who’s carrying a painful burden: the death of his wife which has left him alone with their daughter. He hasn’t had time for sorrow because he’s had to look after her, raising her with love and devotion by way of an exclusive and all-encompassing relationship, where one person tends to the wounds of the other through their own. After several years, when he tries to start over with a new partner, things don’t go as he’d dreamed: his daughter’s reaction is explosive, and Pietro is severely put to the test. He finds himself torn between anger and paternal instinct: how far will his forgiveness stretch? How much stronger is love than reason?

Ivano De Matteo has always split himself between theatre, fiction and documentary films, and TV series (including Romanzo criminale - La serie in 2008). Most memorable among his feature films are Beautiful People [+see also:
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(Translated from Italian)