Country: Italy
Year: 2024
Duration: 90'
Anna Ricca is an enthusiastic veterinarian who divides her time between managing the farm and the many family roles that, in turn, make her an enamored wife, an affectionate daughter, an anxious mother, a patient grandmother. The sudden death of Gino, Anna’s sick father, provides her with the opportunity to finally free herself of her father’s caregiver, Aysè, with whom she had never gotten along. In the company of Anna, Aysè Yildirim will return to Turkey with the old bed that Gino bequeathed to her, on a journey through the Balkans that is destined to change both their lives forever.
Biography
film director
Maurizio Nichetti
(Milan, 1948), director, actor, and screenwriter, received his degree in architecture after debuting as an actor at the Piccolo Teatro. He worked as a screenwriter at the studio of Bruno Bozzetto from 1971 to 1978, and in 1979 made Ratataplan, his first film as a director, actor, and screenwriter. This movie was followed by another dozen, including Ho fatto splash (I Made a Splash), Ladri di saponette (The Icicle Thief), and Volere Volare (To Want to Fly). Since 2014, he has been the artistic director of the Milanese headquarters of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and conducts a directing laboratory at the IULM University - Milan. Since 2020, he is the artistic director, in Milan, of the Visioni dal Mondo International Documentary Festival. In 2024, he directed a new feature film for the silver screen, AmicheMai.
FILMOGRAFIA
Ratataplan (1979), Ho fatto splash (1980), Domani si balla! (1982), Il Bi e il Ba (1985), Ladri di saponette (1989), Volere volare (1991), Stefano Quantestorie (1993), Palla di neve (1995), Luna e l’altra (1996), Honolulu Baby (2001), Mammamia! (tv, 2003-2004), Le avventure di Neve & Gliz (tv, 2005), Dottor Clown (tv, 2008), Agata e Ulisse (2011), AmicheMai (2024).
Declaration
film director
“Shooting another movie more than twenty years later was sort of like shooting another first film. The same anxiety, the same uncertainties, the same enthusiasm. In twenty years, everything has changed in the performance world, in the way people watch movies, the way the movies are shot. This is why I was very excited at the sheer idea of starting all over. Just like Ratataplan, my first feature film, I let myself be guided by my instinct more than by professionalism and, like back then, the film was born day by day, it developed the way it wanted to, it emerged from the screenplay to let itself be contaminated by the life we have lived in these past twenty years.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Maurizio Nichetti. STORY: Angela Finocchiaro, Cristiana Mainardi, Maurizio Nichetti. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Vincenzo Carpineta. EDITING: Massimo Germoglio. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Francesca Fezzi. COSTUMES: Lavinia Bonsignore. MUSIC: Carlo Siliotto. CAST: Angela Finocchiaro, Serra Yilmaz, Gelsomina Pascucci, Pia Paoletti, Maurizio Nichetti, Astrid Casali, Luca Lombardi, Aaron Burgio, Vittorio Grezzi. PRODUCTION: Isabella Cocuzza, Arturo Paglia per Paco Cinematografica, Loka Film.
CONTACT: Paco Cinematografica produzione@pacocinematografica.it
