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SULLY

SULLY
by Clint Eastwood
Country: USA
Year: 2016
Duration: 95'


On January 15th, 2009, US Airways flight 1549 took off from LaGuardia airport in New York, heading to Charlotte, North Carolina. There were a hundred and fifty passengers on board of the flight piloted by Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger and copilot Jess Skiles. But a flock of birds flew into the plane engines at 2,800 feet, forcing the pilot to perform an emergency water landing, which he executed perfectly. Everybody on board survived in what became known as the “Miracle on the Hudson,” all thanks to Sully’s pilot skills and experience. The incident, however, had an emotionally devastating effect on the captain, especially after a few witness reports put his career and reputation in jeopardy and he was summoned by the National Transportation Safety Board to defend his actions. [rm]

Biography

film director

Clint Eastwood

(San Francisco, CA, USA, 1930) became famous with Sergio Leone’s westerns and in 1971 he made his directorial debut with Play Misty for Me. In the following years he played the part of the inspector Callahan and continued to make westerns and films of other genres such as the biographical Bird (1988). In 1992 he won four Academy Awards with The Unforgiven and later imposed himself as a great contemporary director with works such as Absolute Power (1997), Mystic River (2003) and Million Dollar Baby (2004), with which he won the second Academy Award for Best Director and for the Best Film. In 2015 he returned to receive six nominations from the Academy for American Sniper. In 2016 Sully had its Italian premiere at the Torino Film Festival.

FILMOGRAFIA

Play Misty for Me (Brivido nella notte, 1971), High Plains Drifter (Lo straniero senza nome, 1973), Breezy (1973), The Eiger Sanction (Assassinio sull'Eiger, 1975), The Outlaw Josey Wales (Il texano dagli occhi di ghiaccio, 1976), The Gauntlet (L'uomo nel mirino, 1977), Bronco Billy (id., 1980), Firefox (Firefox - Volpe di fuoco, 1982), Honkytonk Man (id., 1983), Sudden Impact (Coraggio… fatti ammazzare, 1983), Tightrope (Corda tesa, 1984), Pale Rider (Il cavaliere pallido, 1985), Gunny (id., 1986), Bird (id., 1988), White Hunter Black Heart (Cacciatore bianco, cuore nero, 199o), The Rookie (La recluta, 1990), Unforgiven (Gli spietati, 1992), A Perfect World (Un mondo perfetto, 1993), The Bridges of Madison County (I ponti di Madison County, 1995), Absolute Power (Potere assoluto, 1997), Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Mezzanotte nel giardino del bene e del male, 1997), True Crime (Fino a prova a contraria, 1999), Space Cowboys (id., 2000), Blood Work (Debito di sangue, 2002), Mystic River (id., 2003), The Blues (id., doc, 2003), Million Dollar Baby (id., 2004), Flags of Our Fathers (id., 2006), Letters from Ivo Jima (Lettere da Iwo Jima, 2016), Changeling (id., 2008), Gran Torino (id., 2008), Invictus (Invictus - L’invincibile, 2009), Hereafter (id., 2010), J. Edgar (id., 2011), Jersey Boys (id., 2014), American Sniper (id., 2014), Sully (id., 2016), The 15:17 to Paris (Ore 15:17 - Attacco al treno, 2018), The Mule (Il corriere - The Mule, 2018), Richard Jewell (2019), Cry Macho (2021).  

Declaration

film director

“Any person who can make decisions when things are going bad and can solve problems without letting panic get in the way deserves to be portrayed on film. For me, the real conflict happened after the incident, when Sully’s decisions were called into question, despite the many lives he saved.”

Cast

& Credits

regia/director
Clint Eastwood
soggetto/story
dal libro/from the book Highest Duty di/by Chesley «Sully» Sullenberger,
Jeffrey Zaslow
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Todd Komarnicki
fotografia/cinematography
Tom Stern
montaggio/film editing
Blu Murray
scenografia/production design
James J. Murakami
costumi/costume design
Deborah Hopper
musica/music
Christian Jacob, The Tierney Sutton Band
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Tom Hanks (Chesley «Sully» Sullenberger), Aaron Eckhart (Jeff Skiles), Laura Linney (Lorrie Sullenberger)
produttori/producers
Clint Eastwood, Frank Marshall, Allyn Stewart, Tim Moore
produzione/production
Flashlight Films, Kennedy-Marshall Company, Malpaso
coproduttori/coproducers
Jessica Meier, Kristina Rivera
distribuzione/distribution
Warner Bros. Italia


contatti/contacts
Warner Bros. Italia
www.warnerbros.it

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