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Italy 1999 / 35 mm / Color / 90 min. | |||
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Venice 1748. After a wild night at the Carnival, the young Countess Cornelia is locked up in a country villa by her family. Nobody is to know that she is pregnant, especially not her fianc�, the Duke of Fontanges. If word of Cornelia's condition gets out, the marriage will be called off and it would mean social and financial disaster for her family. Meanwhile, Rosa, a young farm girl, is also pregnant and she too is desperate. She gets hired to assist Piera the nurse, but the real reason for her recruitment is to carry out a terrible scheme hatched by Cornelia's family: to do away with Cornelia's baby as soon as it is born. The two young women get to know each other during their lengthy pregnancies. Despite their different social backgrounds, Rosa and Cornelia begin to share feelings of complicity and solidarity. The gap between them narrows and a mutual respect develops between the rich young aristocrat and the unschooled farm girl. When their pregnancies come to term the two young women decide to subvert the scheme of Cornelia's parents. |
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| Script: Giorgio Treves, Fran�oise De Maulde, Remo Binosi. D'apr�s la pi�ce/Based on the play: L'attesa. De/By: Remo Binosi. Phot.: Camillo Bazzoni. Ed.: Carla Simoncelli. Mus.: Franco Piersanti. Cast: Stefania Rocca, Chiara Muti, Athina Cenci, Massimo Poggio, Daria Nicolodi, Massimo De Rossi. Prod.: Grazia Volpi, Gierre Film / Film Tre, via della Lungara 3, 00165 Rome (Italie), t�l.: (39-06) 588 40 03, fax: (39-06) 588 42 06, e-mail: [email protected]. | |||
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Giorgio Treves Born in New York in 1945, Giorgio Treves worked as an assistant to Visconti on CONVERSATION PIECE (1974) and THE INNOCENT (1976) and has alternated between theatre, cinema, television and the making of commercials. He served as artistic director of the Asti Teatro International Festival and has written several screenplays. His filmography includes: K-Z (1972), Rads 1001 (1973), IL RITORNO (1980), CENERE PER LE SORELLE FLYNN (1982), LA CODA DEL DIAVOLO (1986) and Prima Linea, an episode of INTOLERANCE (1996). |