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The Wedding Director

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The Wedding Director (Il regista di matrimoni)

The Wedding Director (Il regista di matrimoni)

The Wedding Director (Il regista di matrimoni)

original title:

Il regista di matrimoni

directed by:

Marco Bellocchio

cast:

Sergio Castellitto, Donatella Finocchiaro, Gianni Cavina, Sami Frey, Maurizio Donadoni, Claudia Zanella, Bruno Cariello, Aurora Peres, Giovanni Calcagno, Carmelo Galati, Paola Lavini, Guido Caprino, Alba Rohrwacher, Francesco Scianna, Ludovico Caldarera, Simona Lisi, Simona Nobili, Corinne Castelli, Silvia Ajelli, Giacomo Guernieri

screenplay:

Marco Bellocchio

cinematography:

Pasquale Mari

editing:

Francesca Calvelli

set design:

Marco Dentici

costume design:

Sergio Ballo

music:

Riccardo Giagni

producer:

Sergio Pelone, Luciano Martino, Edwige Fenech

production:

Film Albatros, Rai Cinema, Dania Film, Immagine e Cinema, supported by Ministero della Cultura

distribution:

01 Distribution [Italy]

world sales:

Celluloid Dreams [France]

country:

Italy/France

year:

2006

film run:

100'

format:

35mm - colour

aspect ratio:

1.66:1

sound:

DTS

release date:

21/04/2006

festivals & awards:

Franco Elica, a film director, slides into despair after his daughter marries a devoted catholic. When he is asked, to his horror, to make yet another version of Alessandro Manzoni's 'The Betrothed' he flees to Sicily. Hiding out in a small village he meets a host of colorful characters: a man who makes his living shooting souvenir wedding films, a film director who is faking his own death to finally achieve the fame that has eluded him all his life and the cultured nobleman Prince Ferdinando Gravina di Palagolina. The Prince commissions Franco to shoot the wedding of his beautiful daughter, Bona. He falls instantly in love with the Princess and decides to make it his mission to save her from a marriage of convenience.