18/02/2008

Seven years after Chimera, Pappi Corsicato is returning behind the camera for Il seme della discordia (“The Seed of Discord”), produced by Rodeo Drive with Medusa (which will distribute the film), with a contribution from the Ministry of Culture for a budget of approximately €2.3m.

The new film by the Neapolitan director was "very loosely" inspired by a Heinrich von Kleist short story, from which Eric Rohmer made The Marquise of O in 1976.

Corsicato has modernised the small drama set in the late 19th century in Lombardy, with his usual over-the-top mark. "I thought it was an idea that could work very well if set in today’s world and in our social context," the director told CinecittàNews.

"The main characters are a married couple, both successful in their careers, whose lives are disrupted by a small drama that forces them to re-evaluate their relationship: she discovers she’s pregnant just as he is diagnosed with infertility".

Shooting is set to begin on April 7 for six weeks in and around Naples on what Corsicato calls “a universal story that is not just tied to the city of Naples”.

The husband will be played by Alessandro Gassman and the wife by Caterina Murino ("The former Bond girl will become a Pappi girl for the occasion," joked the director) as well as, according to industry rumors, another top actress currently enjoying success: Isabella Ferrari of Quiet Chaos [+see also:
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(Translated from Italian)