::: Italia Film Fest:::

Il caimano

:: DETAILS

Reg./Dir.:
Nanni Moretti
Sogg./Story:
Nanni Moretti
Heidrun Schleef
Scen./Script:
Nanni Moretti
Francesco Piccolo
Federica Pontremoli
Fot./Phot.:
Arnaldo Catinari
Mont./Ed.:
Esmeralda Calabria
Scg./Art Dir.:
Giancarlo Basili
Cost.:
Lina Nerli Taviani
Mus.:
Franco Piersanti
Cast:
Silvio Orlando, Margherita Buy
Daniele Rampello,Giacomo Passarelli
Jasmine Trinca, Cecilia Dazzi
Martina Iero, Michele Placido
Luisa De Santis, Giuliano Montaldo
Jerzy Stuhr, Tatti Sanguineti
Antonio Catania, Elio De Capitani
Valerio Mastandrea, Nanni Moretti
Anna Bonaiuto, Stefano Rulli
Antonio Petrocelli, Paolo De Vita
Paolo Virzì, Paolo Sorrentino
Dario Cantarelli, Carlo Mazzacurati
Antonello Grimaldi, Lorenzo Alessandri
Giancarlo Basili, Giovanna Nicolai
Matteo Garrone, Mimmo Mancini
Bruno Memoli, Luca D’Ascanio
Fabrizio Morandi, Andrea Tidona
Sofia Vigliar, Renato De Maria
Prod.:
Angelo Barbagallo, Nanni Moretti
per/for Sacher Film, Bac Films,
Stephan Films, France 3 Cinema,
Wild Bunch, Canal +, Cinecinema
Sacher Film, Rome
Tel. +39065745353
E-mail: sacher.film@flashnet.it
Distr:
Sacher Distribuzione, Milano
Tel. +39065745353
E-mail: sacher.film@flashnet.it
Dati tecn./Tech. data:
Italia / Italy 2006
112’

:: PLOT

Bruno Bonomo is the producer of B-movies with bizarre titles (Killer Slipper, Maciste vs. Freud). His career is at a halt and he hasn’t directed movies for over ten years. His relation with his wife, the unforgotten protagonist of some of his films, is in crisis but he can’t accept the idea of separating from her nor his beloved children, of 7 and 9 years-old. Invited to a movieclub for the screening of one of his most famous movies, Cataratte, he meets Teresa, a 24 year-old director, who gives him a screenplay entitled Il Caimano. After reading the script distractedly, Bonomo invites the young director to a meeting with a Rai manager for its financing, without having realizing the movie revolves around a modern predator that embodies Berlusconi. After Rai’s rejection, an important Polish producer decides to help them because he wants to work with famous actor Marco Pulci. But when the shooting is about to begin, Pulci decides to give up on the role and Bonomo’s dreams collapse.

: BIOGRAPHY

NANNI MORETTI

Born in Brunico (Bolzano), on August 19, 1953, he grew up in Rome. As a teen-ager, he had two passions: movies and water polo. In the same years he was also politically engaged. After high school, he buys a Super8 camera and shoots two short films: La sconfitta e Patè de bourgeois. His first feature is dated 1976: Io sono autarchico, shot in Super8 and blown up to 16mm. In the movie his alter-ego character, Michele Apicella, became recurrent in his following movies, was born. The following movie, Ecce bombo, was presented in competition at Cannes in 1978 and achieved great success of audience and critics. In 1981 the Grand Jury of the Venice Festival awarded him a Golden Lion for Sogni d’oro. In 1984 he directed Bianca starring Laura Morante, followed by La messa è finita a year later, winner of a Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. In 1986 he founded a production company with Angelo Barbagallo, Sacher Film, and produced, among others, Il portaborse and Domani accadrà by Daniele Luchetti, Notte italiana by Carlo Mazzacurati, and more recently Te lo leggo negli occhi by Valia Santella. In 1991 he opened a movie theater in Trastevere, il Nuovo Sacher, and in 1997 he founded a distribution company, Tandem, today Sacher Distribuzione. In 1989 he directed Palombella rossa, presented at the International Week of the Critics during the Venice Film Festival. Shortly after came the documentary La cosa, an inside look on the debate of the evolution of the Italian Communist Party presented by Achille Occhetto, the party’s Secretary. In 1993, the Toronto Film Festival dedicated a retrospective to his movies and in the same year Caro diario, winner of the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival, was released. His following film, Aprile, split the critics, but then came The Son’s Room, an intense, touching, and highly emotional movie, that in May 2001 won a Golden Palm at Cannes, bringing back the palm to Italy after 23 years. Il Caimano won 6 David di Donatello and took part in the 2006 Cannes Film Festival in the competition section

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