Guests ( Ospiti ) - DaaVeeDee

Guests (DVD) (*)

Out of Stock

Original Title: Ospiti
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Italian ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
66 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1998 and produced in:
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Matteo Garrone

Written By:
Matteo Garrone
Attilio Caselli

Actors:
Julian Sota ..... Gherti
Llazar Sota ..... Gheni
Corrado Sassi ..... Corrado
Pasqualino Mura ..... Lino
Paola Rota ..... Paola
Paolo Sassanelli ..... Carabiniere
Maria Ramires ..... Maria
Gianni Di Gregorio ..... Giacomo
Salvatore Sansone ..... Hospital Passer-by
Alessandro Busiri Vici ..... Tenant
Laura Denoyer ..... Tenant
Alex Martayan ..... Porter
Mimmo Mancini ..... Cemetery Keeper
Dino Abbrescia ..... Petrol-pump Attendant
Massimiliano Cambarau ..... Aspiring Actor

Synopsis:

This Italian drama follows the exploits of two Albanian immigrants struggling to establish themselves in bustling Rome. Their story began as one of three stories in director Matteo Garrone's debut feature Land in Between (1996). Protagonists, Gherti (Julian Sota) and Ghini (Llazar Sota) live in a crowded flat with their uncle, and they work in a restaurant. The two find their living arrangements unsuitable, so their boss attempts to help them by suggesting that they move in with his friend, known only as The Photographer (Corrado Sassi). It's a nice place, but the brothers find the small neighborhood intimidating. Eventually, Gherti tires of his brother's domineering ways and leaves him. Soon afterward, Gherti becomes friends with Lino, who came from Sardinia thirty years before. Several years ago, Lino's wife went mad and disappeared; he fears she has drowned. The film played at the 1998 Venice Film Festival where director Garrone received a FEDIC Award - Special Mention and a Runner(s) up Kodak Award.

Gherti and Ghini are Albanian immigrants in Italy, who live and work in their uncle's restaurant. They try to find more challenging jobs, and meet Lino, a man searching for his missing wife. She has gone crazy and run off, though not before costing Lino his job of 30 years. Gheni quits his job, tired of Gherti's bossiness, and while he wanders aimlessly, Gherti is becoming increasingly close to Corrado, the young artist whose house the boys live in.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 28 December, 2009.

Customers who bought this product also purchased

Very Annie Mary (DVD)	Portrait of a Marriage - 2-DVD Set (DVD)	Withnail & I (1987) (DVD)
Time Regained (DVD)	The Sins - Season 1 - 2-DVD Set (DVD)	The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (DVD)