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Production / Italy


515 articles available in total starting from 30/10/2002. Last article published on 26/07/2019.

East West East: Freedom on two wheels

“As independent producers we are very much interested in the freshness, originality and enthusiasm of Eastern European cinema,” said Italy’s Francesco Tagliabue of Fast Rewind and Albania’s Arben...  

02/07/2008 | Production | Italy/Albania

Ozpetek’s hopes to have “perfect day” in Venice

"There’s been nothing official yet, but my film Un giorno perfetto [“A Perfect Day”] was seen by the selection committee of the upcoming Venice Film Festival. I’d be happy to be in competition,...  

24/06/2008 | Production | Italy

Avati’s new film ready for Venice

Pupi Avati makes no bones about his ambitions to take part in the upcoming Venice Film Festival. “The festival has always brought me luck, I’d like to be selected,” says the director of the recent...  

09/06/2008 | Production | Italy

Pitzianti looks at multi-ethnic Sardinia in first feature

Tutto torna, the first narrative film by Enrico Pitzianti (the director of the documentary Piccola pesca), has become a hit in its native Sardinia, where it was released on May 9. The film will...  

03/06/2008 | Production | Italy

Quo Vadis, Baby? comes to TV

A box office hit in 2005 and released to success in numerous countries, including the UK and France (see news), Quo Vadis, Baby? by Oscar winner Oscar Gabriele Salvatores now has a television...  

13/05/2008 | Production | Italy

Ferrario finds “freedom” behind bars

"It is a film in prison, not about prison,” says director Davide Ferrario of his new film, a “comedy with music”, which began shooting May 5. Libertà (“Freedom”) is in fact set in Turin’s Vallette...  

08/05/2008 | Production | Italy

Montaldo back with “demons”

"Life is more interesting than the imagination, but invention make it richer," says Fyodor Dostoevsky in Giuliano Montaldo’s I demoni di San Pietroburgo (“The Demons of St. Petersburg”), though he...  

21/04/2008 | Production | Italy

Si può fare not about politics

Claudio Bisio, Anita Caprioli and Giuseppe Battiston are among the main cast of Giulio Manfredonia’s comedy Si può fare (“Yes We Can”). The title has nothing to do with the Italian elections (and...  

15/04/2008 | Production | Italy

Giovanna Mezzogiorno’s low-budget “love”

After the epic film Love in the Time of Cholera, and in anticipation of her turn in Marco Bellocchio’s Vincere (as Ida Dalser, the mother of Benito Mussolini’s secret son), Giovanna Mezzogiorno...  

15/04/2008 | Production | Italy

Siani never forgets

The star of 2006’s Ti lascio perché ti amo troppo, Neapolitan comic Alessandro Siani (who with that film broke the box office of his city, before taking part in the latest Christmas blockbusters...  

09/04/2008 | Production | Italy

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