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Director:
Andrea Porporati
Writer:
Andrea Porporati (writer)
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Release Date:
5 September 2007 (Italy) more
Genre:
Drama more
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Awards:
1 nomination more
User Comments:
Same Song, Slightly Different Lyrics more (4 total)

Cast

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Donatella Finocchiaro ... Ada
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Vincenzo Amato ... Vito Scordia, Saro's father
Pietro Arciadiacono ... Proprietario chiosco
Arianna Barbanera ... Figlia Saro e Aldo
Roberto Bonura ... Guardaspalle Zu Pietro
Gaetano Bruno ... Mimmo
Marialorena Cacciatore ... Turista tedesca
Andrea Cannistraro ... Regazzo traghetto
Tommaso Caporrimo ... Rapinatore
Gioacchino Cappelli
Renato Carpentieri ... Vicari
Vittoria Cinquina ... Turista tedesca
Giovanni Cintura ... Zu Pietro
Ignazio Cusimano ... Benzinaio Apprendista
Fulvio D'Angelo ... Artificiere mafioso
Vincenzo D'Asta ... Fratello Saro
Giuseppa Di Blasi ... Madre Saro
Calogero Di Majo ... Roccu u pazzu
Antonino Dolcemascolo ... Rapinatore
Mario Fasano ... Proprietario autosalone
Salvatore Forzisimo ... Barzellettiere
Toni Gambino ... Gaetano
Fabrizio Gifuni ... Stefano
Alessandro Giugliano ... Guardaspalle Ofanto
Ornella Giusto ... Antonia
Giugiu Gramaglia ... Caposcorta Massirenti
Santo Leonardi ... Traduttore di Partinico
Erasmo Lo Bello ... Gurdaspalle Zu Pietro
Luigi Lo Cascio ... Saro Scordia
Giacomo Lo Nardo ... Esentato servizio militare

Filippo Luna ... Direttore carcere
Mariangela Consuelo Lupo ... Cliente banca
Salvatore Maddalena ... Rapinatore
Ana Paula Mancino Machado ... Moglie Mimmo
Flora Massimo ... Madre Sciacca
Linda Messerlinker ... Chantal
Pier Luigi Misasi ... Cosimo Albanese
Domenico Montesanto ... Rapinatore
Emanuela Muni
Fabrizio Nuccio ... Ragazzo pozzo
Enrico Pappalardo ... Padre Massirenti
Leandro Parlavecchio ... Padre esentato
Mario Patanè ... Babbuzza
Domenico Pecoraro ... Ninni Santamaria
Antonino Pensabene ... Ragioniere
Alessio Piazza ... Lillo
Marcello Prayer ... Ofanto Agostino
Antonio Puccia ... Maresciallo traghetto
Raffaele Sabato ... Turi Sciacca
Maria Luisa Seravesi ... Commessa
Annamaria Varello ... Cassiera
Gian Maria Virzì ... Ragazzo pozzo
Grazia Zappalà ... Cliente autosalone
Giuseppa Zerbo ... Madre Rocco
Giuseppe Zerbo ... Rapinatore
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Sweet and the Bitter (Europe: English title) (festival title)
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Runtime:
Germany:98 min (European Film Market)
Country:
Italy
Language:
Italian
Color:
Color
Certification:
Australia:MA
Company:
Sciarlò more

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18 out of 21 people found the following comment useful.
Same Song, Slightly Different Lyrics, 5 September 2007
4/10
Author: Daniele Pinto from Italy

I was so hoping to be blown away by an Italian film taking me to places I've never been or, at least, to places I've been before but through new unexplored roads. I'll have to keep hoping and waiting. Nothing new in the Italian cinematographic landscape. Very depressing really and that's without mentioning the platitudes surrounding every Italian outing at this 64th/75th anniversary of the Venice Film Fest. Here the subject is "mafia" are we surprised? Luigi Lo Cascio plays one of them, growing convinced that he's a good guy really. Then, of course, he starts to notice. Oh please! Lo Cascio is a very good actor but his earnestness leaves me cold. Bad thing in a movie in which you're desperate to feel something other than the calculated humor and the humorless treatment of this exhausted subject matter. What's wrong with us? If we were an Industry (I use the word without really meaning to) without a past, I could understand this attempts to tell ourselves through our movies. But all that was accomplished in the 40's, 50's, 60s when everything seemed impossible. Look at Francesco Rosi's work or Elio Petri's - I'm not even going to mention Rossellini, for everybody's sake. This are not ridiculous comparisons. They were not aliens from another planet, they were Italians who grew among the same contradictions that we face now. We certainly have more money and a wider horizon, then, why the poverty of ideas? If you want to revisit the mafia, revisit the mafia, but in a way that may help us to see it from a different angle, with a different optical. Okay, forgive the rant. It was just an angry, nervous reflection.

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