17/11/2005

"This film is a challenge. No wise producer would have accepted this project. But at 50, you want to prove something to yourself, to attempt to take the plunge." The irony in Maurizio Sciarra’s words does not hide the weight of the challenge: to transpose to our times the characters of story (The Kreutzer Sonata) by a literary giant like Leo Tolstoy.

Cineuropa met up with the director – winner of the Golden Leopard at the 2001 Locarno Film Festival with Off to the Revolution in a 2CV (o.t. Alla rivoluzione sulla 2 cavalli – on the Rome set of his new film, which will be titled Quale amore. Produced by Lionello Cerri for RAI Cinema and Lumière, in collaboration with Swiss broadcaster TSI and Amka, the film is about Andrea (Giorgio Pasotti), a young high finance broker who, stuck in an airport during a snowstorm, confides to a stranger the events behind the jealousy that led him to kill his wife Antonia (Vanessa Incontrada), a famous pianist who had given up her career for love. "This film is very much based on the acting. I chose brave actors, for unusual characters. I wanted 30 year-olds because I thought it was more interesting and disturbing to recount the crisis of a handsome, young couple." Sciarra also worked with exceptional screenwriter Claudio Piersanti, "a man of letters and a novelist. It was necessary in order to give greater force to a film inspired by literature."

Shooting for Quale amore will wrap up in two weeks. "The film should be distributed in April 2006 by 01 Distribution," says producer Lionello Cerri. “It was made with a budget of only 3.8m euro. I don’t consider myself an independent producer, but a small producer who wants to make good films. Unfortunately, in Italy there is no real market for quality films, towards which there is much apprehension despite the fact that they obtain good results ab

(Translated from Italian)