original title:
Sole
directed by:
cast:
screenplay:
cinematography:
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producer:
production:
Kino Produzioni, Lava Films, Rai Cinema, supported by Ministero della Cultura, with the support of Eurimages, Polish Film Institute, Torino FilmLab, Regione Lazio, IDM Film Commission Südtirol
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country:
Italy/Polonia
year:
2019
film run:
102'
format:
colour
release date:
24/10/2019
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Ermanno and Lena are two strangers. Lena has come from Poland to sell her baby. Ermanno has to pretend to be the father so that he can entrust the newborn to his uncle Fabio. As Lena rejects her motherly desire, Ermanno starts to assume his role as he was the actual father of Sole, the baby girl. Unexpectedly, they will experience family life together.
DIRECTOR’S NOTES:
Ever since I was young, I have been wondering what my life would be like if I became a father: what does becoming a father, becoming a parent, mean? Obviously, it has nothing to do simply with giving birth to a creature with one’s genetic traits, but rather with a change of attitude concerning one’s prospects, one’s expectations. How does it feel to lay one’s eyes on a newly born creature whom you have to take care of, whom you feel responsible for? I have wondered if I might ever become the father of a child who is not biologically my own, a route which is maybe less common, but no less concrete due to this. Sole is an attempt to answer such a question.