Autobiographical story about an assistant director who receives an offer to shoot a film in Iraq.
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| Vinicio Marchioni | ... | Aureliano | |
| Carolina Crescentini | ... | Claudia | |
| Giorgio Colangeli | ... | Stefano Rolla | |
| Orsetta De Rossi | ... | Carlotta | |
| Andrea Iaia | ... | Silvio Olla | |
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Alberto Basaluzzo | ... | Massimo Ficuciello |
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Antonio Gerardi | ... | Produttore |
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Edoardo Pesce | ... | Tino |
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Nicola Nocella | ... | Cico |
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Duccio Camerini | ... | Padre di Aureliano |
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Silvio Laviano | ... | Melis |
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Giovanni Carroni | ... | Generale Stano |
| Vanni Fois | ... | Colonnello Scalas | |
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Stefano Mereu | ... | Piras |
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Fabrice Scott | ... | Dottor Fester |
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Autobiographical story about an assistant director who receives an offer to shoot a film in Iraq.
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ItalianRelease Date:
8 September 2010 (Italy) See more »Also Known As:
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R&C Produzioni, Rai Cinema, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali (MiBAC) See more »
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A remarkable first film, made by Amadei from his own real life experience of going to Iraq in 2003 to be an assistant director on a film, and almost winding up dead.
The war sequences are terrific and powerful in execution; harrowing, cinematic, real and yet stylized, largely seen from a subjective camera.
The film is quite moving in the end, and Amadei is willing to let himself (played very well by Vincio Marchioni) come off as a flawed, real human being. Re-examining one's self and one's traumatic experience with a sense of clarity, but without losing emotion would be a challenge for any artist, but as a first feature it is very special.
I also liked that the film wasn't afraid to be a very disturbing film about the realities of war, but still have a comedic edge at time. Life is both tragic and funny, but rare is the film that can walk both sides of that street.
Once in a while the style gets a bit overdone, to the point of breaking a sense of reality, but that's a small fly in a very rich ointment.
I hope Amadei's immense talent can translate to telling stories other than his own.