Country: Italy
Year: 2001
Duration: 120'


A young woman who is incapable of controlling her sexual impulses decides to meet a masochist young man she read about in Sexsistem, a tabloid that publishes classified ads. Unsatisfied, suspended in a desire she isn't aware of, enveloped in her normality, Xenia works in a library, but Xenis isn't her real name, only the nickname she has decided to use for this meeting. Xenia means "stranger" in Greek. Like a thriller, the story develops in an interweaving of encounters and sudden twists, a film that reflects today's eroticism.

Biography

film director

Maria Martinelli

Maria Martinelli was born in Reggio Emilia in 1958. Starting in 1983 she made short films and documentaries about infanticide, war, immigration and youth aggressiveness, films which have been presented and won prizes at numerous international festivals. From 1994 to 1999 she was the director of "La Palazzina", the Center for Information and Communication of the Comune of Imola, which is active in audiovisual promotion, formation and production. In 2000 she made Gladiatori - Reportage sul cinema hard italiano, which tells of the contradictions and difficulties of a profession that walks the tightrope between work and personal involvement. She directed the feature film Amorestremo in 2001.

FILMOGRAFIA

Ammutinamenti da sbarco (cm, 1983), Klidas (cm, 1984), Vento divino (cm, 1986), L'Exangue (cm, 1987), Italia 90 - Lavori in corso (doc., co-regia, 1991), Cuori leggendari (doc., cm, 1992), L'uomo coriandolo (cm, 1993), Il profumo del respiro (cm, 1993), Ghertrude (cm, 1995), Pazi Sniper (cm, 1996), I bambini non lo sanno (doc., video, 1998), Decameron (doc., video, 1999), Lachrymae (cm, 1999), Gladiatori - Reportage sul cinema hard italiano (doc., 2000), Amorestremo (2001).

Cast

& Credits

Director: Maria Martinelli.
Plot: da un romanzo di Claudia Salvatori.
Screenplay: Claudia Salvatori, Maria Martinelli.
Director of photography: Federico Schlatter.
Art director: Alessandro Rosa.
Costume designer: Francesca Parodi.
Editor: Alessio Doglione.
Sound: Massimo Casseriani.
Music: Pivio & Aldo De Scalzi.
Cast: Rocco Siffredi, Stefania Bonafede, Pietro Bontempo, Loretta Rossi, Davide Devenuto, Pietro Ragusa, Alberto Alemanno.
Production company: Galliano Juso per Digital Film, Via A. Chinotto 1, 00195 Rome, Italy, tel. +39-06-3207734, fax +39-06-3224896.
Foreign sales agent: Intra Film, via E. Manfredi, 15, 00197 Rome, Italy, tel. +39-06-8076428, fax +39-06-8076156, e-mail mail@intramovies.com.
Italian distribution: Lantia, via Corridoni 15, Rome, Italy, tel. +39-06-37512743, fax +39-06-37512751.
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