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Italy 1999 / 35 mm / Color / 120 min. | |||
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Romano and Alba are travelling across Europe headed for Amsterdam. Once a literature teacher, Romano is now an alcoholic and a desperate man, living off his girlfriend Arianna. Driven by pride he accepts a job smuggling a large quantity of hashish from Amsterdam to Rome by car. Arianna refuses to accompany him so, needing a convincing cover, he recruits his former girlfriend Alba, now a successful photographer. Alba knows nothing about the real reason for his invitation. She thinks he's now an art dealer who is going to Amsterdam to buy paintings. She believes he has recovered from his personal problems and this is their chance to start over. At last they leave: France, Germany, Austria, Holland. It doesn't take long for Alba to realize that this isn't going to be a second honeymoon... Money infects the whole film. There are things which interfere with the love story', which seem caused by the hero's insincerity and immaturity... but underneath everything, what generates the ambiguity, treachery and indecision is money... an obsession with money. -- Ronaldo Stefanelli |
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| Script: Rolando Stefanelli, Claudio Lizza, Alain Le Henry. Phot.: Vincenzo Marano. Ed.: Roberta Penchini. Mus.: Paolo Fresu. Cast: Stefano Dionisi, Chiara Caselli, Alessandro Repossi, Barbara Lerici, Vittorio Amandola, Fabrizio Mele, Magaly Berdy, Tullio Sorrentino, Franco Barbero, Hidde Maas. Prod.: Rosanna Seregni, Sintra, via Montebello 99, 00185 Rome (Italie), t�l.: (39-06) 4451256, fax: (39-06) 4440053, e-mail: [email protected]. Sales: Adriana Chiesa Enterprises, via Barnaba Oriani, 24/A , 00197 Rome (Italie), t�l.: (39-06) 8070400, 8086052, fax: (39-06) 80687855. | |||
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Rolando Stefanelli Born in Rome in 1957, Rolando Stefanelli began his career in the late '70s first as a photographer and then as assistant cameraman on a series of anthropological documentaries shot by Dieter Matzka for writer Klaus Voswinkel. Back in Rome after working across Europe, he freelanced in documentaries and commercials then used his experience to direct SEXY SHOW (1994) a feature documentary, and a fiction short, La Befana (1995). His critical breakthrough came in 1997 with the short, La matta dei fiori, which won numerous prizes including the prestigious David di Donatello award. |