Baarìa (2009)

Director:

Giuseppe Tornatore

Writer:

Giuseppe Tornatore (story)

Release Date:

25 September 2009 (Italy)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot:

Baaria is Sicilian slang for Bagheria where Tornatore was born and this is an autobiographic epic of three generations in the Sicilian village where he was born.

Plot Keywords:

Children | Epic | Communist Party | 1920s | Farm

Awards:

Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 12 wins & 11 nominations

Cast

Francesco Scianna	...	Peppino Torrenuova
Margareth Madè	...	Mannina
Raoul Bova	...	Roman journalist
Giorgio Faletti	...	Corteccia
Leo Gullotta	...	Liborio
Nicole Grimaudo	...	Sarina as a girl
Gabriele Lavia	...	Teacher
Ángela Molina	...	Sarina
Enrico Lo Verso	...	Minicu
Nino Frassica	...	Giacomo Bartolotta
Aldo	...	Speculator (as Aldo Baglio)
Ficarra	...	Nino (as Salvatore Ficarra)
Picone	...	Luigi (as Valentino Picone)
Marcello Mazzarella	...	Podestà
Luigi Lo Cascio	...	Beggard's son
Beppe Fiorello	...	Dollar seller
Donatella Finocchiaro	...	Haberdasher
Enrico Salimbeni	...	Alberto Lattuada
Lina Sastri	...	Tana / Beggard
Gaetano Aronica	...	Ciccio
Alfio Sorbello	...	Ciccio as a child
Laura Chiatti	...	Student
Michele Placido	...	Communist
Vincenzo Salemme	...	Leading actor
Corrado Fortuna	...	Renato Guttuso
Paolo Briguglia	...	Catechist
Luigi Maria Burruano	...	Chemist
Franco Scaldati	...	Photographer
Monica Bellucci	...	Bricklayer's girlfriend
Sebastiano Lo Monaco	...	Lemon warehouse owner
Tony Sperandeo	...	Breeder
Elena Russo	...	Bride
Gisella Marengo	...	Matilde
Alessandro Di Carlo	...	Alberto Sordi
Giovanni Gambino	...	Peppino as a child
Davide Viviani	...	Peppino as a boy
Mariangela Di Cristina	...	Mannina as a child
Christian Canzonieri	...	Mino
Giuseppe Garufì	...	Pietro as a child
Gaetano Sciortino	...	Pietro as a boy
Giuseppe Russo	...	Michele as a child
Maurizio San Fratello	...	Michele as a boy
Valentina Rubino	...	Angela as a child
Desirée Rubino	...	Angela as a child
Anna Faranna	...	Angela as a girl
Fabrizio Romano	...	Onofrio
Gaetano Bruno	...	Gino Artale
Lollo Franco	...	Don Giacinto
Marco Iermanò	...	Pietro
Adele Tirante	...	Rosalia
Michele Russo	...	Turiddu
Lauretana Di Salvo	...	Rosa
Gaetano Balistreri	...	Carru Minà / Carru Minà's grandson
Alessandro Schiavo	...	Ignazio Buttitta
Orio Scaduto	...	Gaspare
Francesco Guzzo	...	Auctioneer
Ludovico Vitrano	...	Sarina's father
Salvatore Filippone	...	Blacksmith
Leonardo Bellanca	...	Student
Nino Russo	...	Major
Daniele Perrone	...	Mannina's boyfriend
Dustin Fowler	...	American soldier
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ben Ammar Beata	...	Primadonna
Beata Ben Ammar	...	Primadonna
Ludovico Caldarera	...	Journalist with film director
Paladino Sergio	...	(uncredited)

Directed by
Giuseppe Tornatore

Writing credits
Giuseppe Tornatore		(story and screenplay)

Produced by
Tarak Ben Ammar	....	producer
Mario Cotone	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Ennio Morricone

Cinematography by
Enrico Lucidi

Film Editing by
Massimo Quaglia

Production Design by
Maurizio Sabatini

Art Direction by
Maurizio di Clemente		(art direction)
Cosimo Gomez
Maurizio Sabatini

Costume Design by
Luigi Bonanno

Makeup Department
Alessandro Bertolazzi	....	makeup artist: Monica Bellucci
Giusy Bovino	....	chief hair stylist
Vincenza Lamparelli	....	makeup artist
Samankta Mura	....	hair stylist
Diego Prestopino	....	makeup artist
Gino Zamprioli	....	makeup department head
Ilaria Zamprioli	....	key makeup artist

Production Management
Riccardo Folgore	....	unit manager
Katia Franco	....	unit manager
Giorgio Innocenti	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Moez Ben Hassen	....	second assistant director
Alberto Mangiante	....	first assistant director
Lassad Oueslati	....	third assistant director
Barbara Pastrovich	....	second assistant director

Art Department
Francesco Cotone	....	assistant art designer
Sergio Tribastone	....	assistant art director

Sound Department
Paolo Amici	....	sound effects editor
Italo Cameracanna	....	foley artist
Italo Cameracanna	....	sound editor
Italo Cameracanna	....	sound effects
Gabriele Conti	....	assistant sound engineer
Dario D'Amico	....	dialogue editor
Fabio D'Amico	....	dialogue editor
Enzo Diliberto	....	foley artist
Alberto Doni	....	sound mixer
Roberto Moroni	....	sound re-recording mixer
Daniele Quadroli	....	sound effects editor
David Quadroli	....	sound effects editor
Fabrizio Quadroli	....	sound effects editor
Faouzi Thabet	....	sound
Francesco Vallocchia	....	dialogue editor

Special Effects by
Pasquale Catalano	....	special effects technician
Elisa D'Angelo	....	special effects
Patrizio Lamura	....	special effects
Adriano Macchitella	....	special effects
Davide Palmiotto	....	assistant engineer
Mario Zanot	....	special effects supervisor

Visual Effects by
Francesco Alliaud	....	lighting technical director
Krámli András	....	rotoscope artist: Cube Effects
Szvák Antal	....	visual effects coordinator: Cube Effects
Gilberto Arpioni	....	lead compositor: Storyteller
Oliver Auguszt	....	3D artist: Cube Effects
Francesca Baiardi	....	visual effects coordinator: Storyteller
Andrea Baracca	....	digital color timing
Francesca Bellettato	....	compositor: Storyteller
Zoltán Benyó	....	visual effects production supervisor: Digital Apes
Viviana Biondolillo	....	visual effects production assistant: Storyteller
Gilberto Birigozzi	....	system administration: Storyteller
Zoltán Bojtos	....	rotoscope artist: Cube Effects
Vajda Bálint	....	rotoscope artist: Cube Effects
Mária Czeglédi	....	rotoscope artist: Cube Effects
Dennis Dallen	....	lead compositor
Enrico De Palo	....	lead compositor
Laboncz Edina	....	rotoscope artist: Cube Effects
Péter Farkas	....	rotoscope supervisor: Cube Effects
Domenico Ferraro	....	compositor artist
Stefano Ferrera	....	visual effects artist: Storyteller
Zoltán Fiedler	....	matchmove artist: Cube Effects
Ádám Fiers	....	visual effects line producer: Cube Effects
Dániel Forgács	....	tracking supervisor: Cube Effects
Papp Gabriella	....	rotoscope artist: Cube Effects
Saul Galbiati	....	compositor
Paolo Gerosa	....	digital compositor: Storyteller
Aurélien Grand	....	retouch and restoration
Lukas Herrmann	....	digital matte paint artist
Zuzana Hlavkova	....	digital compositor
Giorgio Iovino	....	matte painter/compositor
Marco Iozzi	....	digital matte painter
Simone Jacoella	....	digital compositor
Dalibor Janda	....	digital compositor
Tomas Kalhous	....	senior compositor: UPP
Mihály Kapitány	....	rotoscope artist: Cube Effects
Pál Klemm	....	composite supervisor: Cube Effects
László Kondor	....	junior pipeline technical director: Cube Effects
Gabriella Korán	....	rotoscope artist: Cube Effects
Vaclav Kostun	....	machmove artist
Patrizio Lamura	....	visual effects
Attila Lecza	....	rotoscope artist: Cube Effects
Roberta Longo	....	compositor: Storyteller
Luca Lossani	....	roto & cleanup: Storyteller
Elodie Ly Tri	....	retouch and restoration
Davide Maccagni	....	digital compositor
Adriano Macchitella	....	rotoscope artist
Francesco Marchesini	....	cgi modeler: Storyteller
Dirk Meister	....	lead compositor
Dirk Meister	....	visual effects
Károly Mesterházy	....	matchmove artist
Daniel Mark Miller	....	junior compositor
Michal Mocnak	....	digital compositor
Papp Nikolett	....	compositor: Cube Effects
Maurizio Nitti	....	compositor: Storyteller
Péter Obornik	....	3D artist: Cube Effects
Michelangelo Neri Orliani	....	digital compositor
Peter Orlicky	....	digital compositor
Matteo Pastorino	....	lighter
Andrea Pecora	....	lighter
Sandor Peto	....	3d artist
Robert Pik	....	lead compositor
Fulvio Pisano	....	coordinating producer: Storyteller
Attila Polgár	....	compositor: Cube Effects
Gabor Pulai	....	3d/matchmove artist: Cube Effects
Csaba Pépp	....	compositor: Cube Effects
Luca Gabriele Rossetti	....	visual effects
Emiliano Salardi	....	animation artist: Storyteller
Vit Sedlacek	....	digital compositor
Vit Sedlacek	....	flame artist
Gianni Silvestri	....	visual effects
Federico Stefanini	....	visual effects artist
Mátyás Szabó	....	compositor: Cube Effects
Zoltán Szegedi	....	compositor: Cube Effects
András Szõcs	....	matchmove artist: Cube Effects
Daniele Tagliaferri	....	shot technical director: Storyteller
Guido Tognoni	....	visual effects artist: Storyteller
Ruggero Tomasino	....	compositor
Davide Tubaro	....	visual effects
Gábor Tóth	....	3D artist: Cube Effects
Gergely Velki	....	rotoscope artist: Cube Effects
Attila Vócsa	....	rotoscope artist: Cube Effects
Alessandro Zanforlin	....	digital compositor
Mario Zanot	....	visual effects supervisor: Storyteller

Stunts
David Ambrosi	....	stunt coordinator
Giorgio Antonini	....	stunt safety
Giorgio Antonini	....	stunts
Mauro Aversano	....	stunt performer
Mauro Aversano	....	stunts
Riccardo Mioni	....	stunt safety
Marco Pancrazi	....	stunt performer

Camera and Electrical Department
Cristiano Biagioli	....	grip
Domenico D'Andrea	....	first assistant camera: "b" camera
Giorgio Perluigi	....	additional second assistant camera
Marta Spedaletti	....	chief still photographer
Martino Tagliaferri	....	focus puller: "a" camera

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Antonella Balsamo	....	costume design assistant
Sabrina Beretta	....	costume assistant
Marco Fantoni	....	costume design assistant
Marco Magno	....	costume design assistant

Editorial Department
Jerome Brechet	....	dailies color grader
Reginald Gallienne	....	dailies color grader

Music Department
Gabriele Conti	....	score engineer assistant
Piero Cosenza	....	music consultant
Antonello Navarra	....	music producer
Gianni Perilli	....	musician
Paola Vanoni	....	music licensing
Paola Vanoni	....	music production assistant

Other crew
Barbara Busso	....	production coordinator
Cristina Catapano	....	cashier
Elide Cortesi	....	script supervisor
Paolo Iocchi Gratta	....	accountant
Emilie Maison	....	press attache france
Salvatore Ricciardi	....	conform supervisor
Emanuela Valente	....	payroll clerk

Production Companies

• Medusa Film
• Quinta Communications (co-production)
• Regione Siciliana (support)
• Sicilia Film Commission (support)

Distributors

• Medusa Film (2009) (Italy) (all media)
• Hollywood Classic Entertainment (2009) (Czech Republic) (theatrical)
• Odeon (2009) (Greece) (theatrical)
• Paradiso Entertainment (2009) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• TOBIS Film (2009) (Germany) (theatrical)
• Ascot Elite Entertainment Group (2009) (Switzerland) (all media)
• Summit Entertainment (2009) (worldwide) (all media)
• Kadokawa Pictures (2010) (Japan) (theatrical)
• Quinta Communications (2010) (France) (theatrical)
• Shaw Organisation (2010) (Singapore) (theatrical)
• CatchPlay (2010) (Taiwan) (all media)
• Continental Film (2010) (Slovakia) (all media)
• E1 Entertainment (2010) (Canada) (DVD)
• Paradiso Home Entertainment (2010) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Quinta Distribution (2010) (France) (all media)
• TriPictures (2010) (Spain) (all media)
• Alfa Films (2011) (Argentina) (theatrical)
• Image Entertainment (2011) (USA) (DVD) (Blu-Ray)
• Paris Filmes (2011) (Brazil) (DVD) (Blu-Ray)
• Transeuropa Video Entertainment (TVE) (2011) (Argentina) (DVD)
• Paris Filmes (2010) (Brazil) (all media)
• Film1 (2011) (Netherlands) (TV) (limited)
• Odeon (2010) (Greece) (DVD)

Special Effects

• Bloompix (visual effects)
• Digital Apes (visual effects)

Other Companies

• DDA Public Relations (DDA)  international publicity consultants
• Exon Film  executive production
• Intelligent Media  international monitoring agency
• Lumiq Studios  post-production facilities
• Panalight  camera equipment provided by
• Panalight  grip and lighting equipment

Also Known As:

"Sicilia! Sicilia!" - Japan (English title) (imdb display title)

Runtime:

150 min

Country:

Italy | France

Language:

Sicilian | Italian | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital

Certification:

Ireland:15A | Singapore:M18 | Italy:T | UK:15 | Japan:PG12 | Brazil:14 | Argentina:13 | Germany:12

Filming Locations:

Bagheria, Palermo, Sicily, Italy

Company:

Medusa Film

Trivia:

More than 35,000 extras were employed.

Movie Connections:

References Three Brothers (1981)

Local boy remembers

Lovely to look at. A chunk of 1900 set in a small Sicilian town, that town where Giuseppe Tornatore, the writer director, was born. I thought it was a delightful two and a half hours of snippets between fades to black. just like memories work, a bit of this and a bit of that. A tapestry of highs and lows among the remarkably unremarkable. My only puzzlement comes with the way Italians are reacting to "Baaria" Even if it was at the top of the box office charts there is tendency to dismiss this film for not confronting this for not confronting that for being too "clean" and a lot of other absurdities like that. This is an epic, expensive looking, personal film by the anointed "best living Italian Director" which means a director that is marketable in other countries, specially USA. I can predict that Americans will love "Baaria" in spite of the red flags and the romantic view of communism. They know that school of thought is by now as anachronistic as a typewriter and just as harmless. The leads are played by two scrumptious new stars and from the collection of cameos I took away with me Angela Molina and Lina Sastri remain vividly in my mind.