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LOCARNO 2006 Competition / Italy

Roberta Torre and Enrico Pau in competition

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Jimmy della collina (lit. “Jimmy of the Hills”) by Enrico Pau and Dark Sea by Roberta Torre are the two Italian films selected for international competition for the Locarno Film Festival.

Dark Sea, produced by Cattleya and RAI Cinema with Babe Productions, is the fourth film by Roberta Torre, after To Die For Tano, South Side Story and Angela, and is about a young police inspector who finds himself exploring Rome’s most ambigiuous and obscure night life. The cast includes Luigi Lo Cascio, Anna Mouglalis and Massimo Popolizio.

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Pau’s film, based on the eponymous novel by Massimo Carlotto, stars young Nicola Adamo, Valentina Carnelutti, Giovanni Carroni and Francesco Origo and tells the story of 17 year-old Jimmy who, due to the lack of prospects in the south-western Sardinia countryside where he lives, begins a life of crime only to end up in a jail for minors.

Jimmy della collina, Pau’s second film, was produced by Guido Servino for X Film with Fondazione Ope, a construction co-op founded years ago in Sardinia by a group of bricklayers that over time has become an important enterprise that also invests in culture.

Screening in the Piazza Grande will be Quale amore (lit. “Which Love”), the new film by Maurizio Sciarra, starring Giorgio Pasotti and Vanessa Incontrada and based on the renowned novel The Kreutzer Sonata by Lev Tolstoy (see making of).

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(Translated from Italian)

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