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PRODUCTION TEAM
Director :
Tom Tykwer
Script :
Krzysztof Kieslowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz
Photography :
Frank Griebe
Editor :
Mathilde Bonnefoy
Cast :
Cate Blanchett, Giovanni Ribisi, Stefania Rocca, James Lloyd, Remo Girone, Max Giusti, Vincenzo Ricotta, Stefano Santospago, Alessandro Sperduti
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HEAVEN
In Turin, Italy, an young English teacher named Philippa plants an explosive device in the waste paper basket of an executive in a high-rise office building. She then phones the Italian police to tell them of the bomb and gives them her name. Tragically, the trash is dumped just before detonation, and instead of eliminating its intended victim, the bomb explodes in an elevator, killing a cleaning woman, a father and his two young children. When the carabinieri come to arrest her, Philippa makes no effort to resist, but when she is told of the results of her actions during her initial interrogation, she is devastated. Philippa had wanted revenge on the drug dealers whose wares have already killed her husband and forced one of her young students to commit suicide. The executive of the electronics company that she targeted was a kingpin in the drug trade. But the police don't believe her; they are trained to suspect a political motive in bombing cases and Philippa isn't very convincing. Only Filippo, the young policeman who acts as her translator, buys her story. He is moved by her plight and decides to take it on himself to gain her freedom. He is convinced that they were meant for each other. He smuggles a tiny dictating machine into her cell and begins secretly communicating with her. But her cell is bugged and Pini, the officer in charge of the case, soon gets wind of their plot. What Pini doesn't know is that the whole scheme is merely a ruse and Filippo has something else entirely in mind...
Tom Tykwer
Born in Wuppertal, Germany in 1965, Tom Tykwer began making short films in Super 8 in 1976 and became involved in running repertory cinemas while still a teenager. He became manager of Berlin's Moviemento theatre in 1988 and two years later began directing programs on cinema for Berlin television. His debut feature DEADLY MARIA (1993) was named best film of the year by the German film critics' association. In 1997 he co-authored the screenplay for Wolfgang Becker's LIFE IS ALL YOU GET. That same year he directed WINTERSLEEPERS (1997), and the following year he established a worldwide reputation with his hit film, RUN LOLA RUN, both of which were shown at the Montreal World Film Festival. His other films include Because (1990), Epilog (1991) and THE PRINCESS AND THE WARRIOR (2000).
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