Kate - La bisbetica domata (2004)

Director:

Roberto Lione

Writers:

Roberto Lione (writer)
Mario Paolinelli (writer)

Genre:

Comedy | Animation

Plot Keywords:

Foreign Language Adaptation | Based On Play

Awards:

1 win

Cast

  (Credited cast)

Neri Marcorè	...	Petrucchio (voice)
Daniela Cavallini	...	Caterina (voice)
Pino Ammendola	...	Ortensio, Don Sarago (voice)
Alberto Caneva	...	Lucenzio (voice)
Mario Milita	...	Gremio (voice)
Carlo Reali	...	Battista (voice)
Romano Malaspina	...	Leone (voice)
Roberto Stocchi	...	Torvo (voice)
Marco Bresciani	...	Gratto (voice)
Laura Boccanera	...	Bianca (voice)

Also Known As:

Kate: The Taming of the Shrew (International: English title)

Runtime:

Italy:77 min

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color

Company:

Crayons S.r.l.

Trivia:

Billed as the first-ever stop-animation movie made in Italy

Movie Connections:

Version of "Shakespeare: The Animated Tales: The Taming of the Shrew (#2.2)" (1994)

An inspired and wonderful animation based on Shakespeare

I had the pleasure of seeing Kate - The Movie recently and was truly amazed with this work of art. Lione uses stop motion animation with all the characters and sets made from paper with vibrant, Mediterranean colours and the kind of style and craftsmanship one would expect from an Italian movie. The Shakespeare subject makes the movie much more international and the music by Juan Bacalov (son of Oscar winner Luis Bacalov) is wonderful. Anyone who likes animation should see this, and it is not only for kids! As far as I know, the movie is shown at almost every relevant film festival around the world and has even won the first prize for animation at the Chicago International Children's Film Festival, where the jury are children - so they should know! Why has no distributor or broadcaster picked this wonderful movie up yet? Do they not go to these Festivals...?