BREAD AND TULIPS
synopsis
An Italian woman, Rosalba, on vacation with her family, gets left behind at a rest stop and, instead of rejoining her husband and two sons, decides to hitchhike back home. Along the way, she gets sidetracked in Venice and, inexplicably, decides to stick around for a while, taking up residence with an Icelandic maitre d'O and landing a job as the assistant to a crotchety old florist.
international title: | Bread and Tulips |
original title: | Pane e tulipani |
country: | Italy |
sales agent: | Adriana Chiesa Enterprises (ACEK) |
year: | 2000 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Silvio Soldini |
film run: | 115' |
release date: | IT 07/02/2001, FR 07/02/2001, ES 05/10/2001 |
screenplay: | Doriana Leondeff, Silvio Soldini |
cast: | Licia Maglietta, Bruno Ganz, Giuseppe Battiston, Marina Massironi, Antonio Catania, Felice Andreasi, Tatiana Lepore, Daniele Piperno, Manrico Gammarota, Vitalba Andrea |
cinematography by: | Luca Bigazzi |
film editing: | Carlotta Cristiani |
art director: | Paola Bizzarri |
costumes designer: | Silvia Nebiolo |
music: | Giovanni Venosta |
producer: | Daniele Maggioni |
production: | Monogatari, RAI Cinema, Amka Films (CH); TSI (CH) |
backing: | Istituto Luce Cinecittà |
distributor: | Istituto Luce Cinecittà, Ocean Films (FR) |