Nanni Moretti Collection 12-DVD Box Set ( Io sono un autarchico / Ecce bombo / Sogni d'oro / La messa è finita / Palombella rossa / Caro diario / Aprile / La stanza del figlio / Il caimano ) ( The Last Customer / I Am Self Sufficient / Golden Dreams / Bianca / The Mass Is Ended / Red Wood Pigeon / Dear Diary / April / The Son's Room / The Caiman )

Nanni Moretti Collection 12-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Io sono un autarchico / Ecce bombo / Sogni d'oro / La messa è finita / Palombella rossa / Caro diario / Aprile / La stanza del figlio / Il caimano
Alternate Title: The Last Customer / I Am Self Sufficient / Golden Dreams / Bianca / The Mass Is Ended / Red Wood Pigeon / Dear Diary / April / The Son's Room / The Caiman
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival
David Donatello Awards
European Film Awards
Goya Awards
Stockholm Film Festival
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

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

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

Running Time:
1019 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Box Set
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Deleted Scenes
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Music Video
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Short Film
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1976-2006 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Nanni Moretti

Written By:
Nanni Moretti
Sandro Petraglia
Heidrun Schleef

Actors:
Godfrey Cheshire ..... Interviewer
Nanni Moretti ..... Michele Apicella
Simona Frosi ..... Simona
Fabio Traversa ..... Fabio
Luciano Agati ..... Giuseppe
Stefano Bergesio ..... The Buddhist
Benedetta Bini ..... Theatrical Critic
Stefano Brasini ..... Andrea
Lorenza Codignola ..... The Doctor
Lorenzo Codignola ..... Giorgio
Alberto Flores d'Arcais ..... Paolo
Piero Galletti
Augusto Minzolini
Franco Moretti
Luigi Moretti
Andrea Parlatore
Beniamino Placido
Andrea Pozzi
Enrico Proietti
Lucio Ravasini
Fabio Sposini
Lori Valerini
Guido Valesini
Giorgio Viterbo
Paolo Zaccagnini
Luisa Rossi ..... Michele's mother
Lina Sastri ..... Olga
Piero Galletti ..... Goffredo
Susanna Javicoli ..... Silvia
Cristina Manni ..... Cristina
Lorenza Ralli ..... Michele's sister Valentina
Maurizio Romoli ..... Flaminia's husband Cesare
Carola Stagnaro ..... Flaminia
Fabio Traversa ..... Mirko
Giorgio Viterbo ..... Reporter for 'Telecalifornia'
Paolo Zaccagnini ..... Vito
Sandro Conte ..... Studente
Maurizio Di Taddeo ..... Student
Mauro Fabretti ..... Student
Dario Cantarelli ..... Critic
Nicola Di Pinto ..... Nicola
Alessandro Haber ..... Gaetano
Laura Morante ..... Silvia
Gigio Morra ..... Gigio Cimino
Remo Remotti ..... Sigmund Freud
Tatti Sanguineti ..... Claudio
Claudio Spadaro ..... Freud's mother
Miranda Campa ..... Freud's daugther
Chiara Moretti ..... Michele's mother
Sabina Vannucchi ..... Allenatore
Piera Degli Esposti ..... Himself / Presentatore
Ennio Antonelli
Maria D'Incoronato
Giampiero Mughini
Gianfranco Salemi
Vincenzo Salemme
Laura Morante ..... Bianca
Roberto Vezzosi ..... Commissary
Remo Remotti ..... Siro Siri
Claudio Bigagli ..... Ignazio
Enrica Maria Modugno ..... Aurora
Vincenzo Salemme ..... Massimiliano
Margherita Sestito ..... Maria
Dario Cantarelli ..... Dean
Virginie Alexandre ..... Martina
Matteo Fago ..... Matteo
Giovanni Buttafava ..... Contested teacher
Luigi Moretti ..... Psychologist
Giorgio Viterbo ..... History teacher
Mario Monaci Toschi ..... Edo, school secretary
Nanni Moretti ..... Don Giulio
Ferruccio De Ceresa ..... Father of Don Giulio
Marco Messeri ..... Saverio
Enrica Maria Modugno ..... Valentina
Dario Cantarelli ..... Gianni
Giovanni Buttafava ..... Lawyer
Luisa De Santis ..... Lucia
Pietro De Vico ..... Friar
Eugenio Masciari ..... Antonio
Vincenzo Salemme ..... Andrea
Roberto Vezzosi ..... Cesare
Margarita Lozano ..... Mother of Don Giulio
Manfredi Aliquo ..... Federico
Francesco Di Giacomo ..... Simone
Mauro Fabretti ..... Astrid
Antonella Fattori ..... Plumber
Inigo Lezzi ..... Judge
Luigi Moretti ..... The Mother
Luisanna Pandolfi ..... Silvia, la sposa
Bianca Pesce ..... Arianna
Carlina Torta
Mario Monaci Toschi
Mariella Valentini
Silvio Orlando ..... Coach of 'Rari Nantes Monteverde'
Mariella Valentini ..... Reporter
Alfonso Santagata ..... Tiresome guy #1
Claudio Morganti ..... Tiresome guy #2
Asia Argento ..... Valentina
Eugenio Masciari ..... Referee
Mario Patanè ..... Simone
Antonio Petrocelli ..... Fascist
Remo Remotti ..... Alter ego of coach
Fabio Traversa ..... Michele's friend
Giovanni Buttafava ..... Psychanalyst
Gabriele Ceracchini ..... Michele as a boy
Luisanna Pandolfi ..... Michele's mother
Imre Budavari ..... Himself
Nanni Moretti ..... Himself
Giovanna Bozzolo ..... Actor in Italian Film
Sebastiano Nardone ..... Actor in Italian Film
Antonio Petrocelli ..... Actor in Italian Film
Giulio Base ..... Car Driver
Italo Spinelli ..... On the Wall at Spinaceto
Carlo Mazzacurati ..... Film Critic
Jennifer Beals ..... Herself
Alexandre Rockwell ..... Himself
Renato Carpentieri ..... Gerardo
Raffaella Lebboroni ..... First Salina Couple
Marco Paolini ..... First Salina Couple
Claudia Della Seta ..... Second Salina Couple
Lorenzo Alessandri ..... Second Salina Couple
Antonio Neiwiller ..... The Mayor of Stromboli
Silvio Orlando ..... Himself
Silvia Nono ..... Herself
Pietro Moretti ..... Himself
Agata Apicella Moretti ..... Herself
Nuria Schoenberg ..... Herself
Silvia Bonucci ..... Herself
Quentin de Fouchécour ..... Himself (as Quentin de Fouchecour)
Renato De Maria ..... Himself
Claudio Francia ..... Himself
Jacopo Francia ..... Himself
Matilde Francia ..... Herself
Daniele Luchetti ..... Himself
Giovanna Nicolai ..... Herself
Nicola Piepoli ..... Himself
Nanni Moretti ..... Giovanni
Laura Morante ..... Paola
Jasmine Trinca ..... Irene
Giuseppe Sanfelice ..... Andrea
Sofia Vigliar ..... Arianna
Renato Scarpa ..... Headmaster
Roberto Nobile ..... Priest
Paolo De Vita ..... Luciano's Father
Roberto De Francesco ..... Record Store Clerk
Claudio Santamaria ..... Dive Shop Clerk
Antonio Petrocelli ..... Enrico
Lorenzo Alessandri ..... Filippo's Father
Alessandro Infusini ..... Matteo
Silvia Bonucci ..... Carla
Marcello Bernacchini ..... Luciano
Silvio Orlando ..... Bruno Bonomo
Margherita Buy ..... Paola Bonomo / Aidra
Jasmine Trinca ..... Teresa
Michele Placido ..... Marco Pulici /
Silvio Berlusconi ..... Franco Caspio
Giuliano Montaldo ..... Direttore di Produzione
Antonello Grimaldi ..... Marito di Aidra
Paolo Sorrentino ..... Silvio Berlusconi
Elio De Capitani ..... Beppe Savonese
Tatti Sanguineti ..... Jerzy Sturovsky
Jerzy Stuhr ..... Indro Montanelli
Toni Bertorelli ..... Direttore della fotografia
Matteo Garrone ..... Aiuto regista
Lorenzo Alessandri ..... Fritz Simmons, lo scenografo
Giancarlo Basili ..... Pubblico Ministero
Anna Bonaiuto

Synopsis:

The Last Customer:
A family living together in a small Northern Italian city: the parents are Giovanni and Paola and their two teenage children are Irene and Andrea. Giovanni is a psychoanalyst and in his office patients confide to him a long list of their neuroses and worries, in contrast to the calm of his own existence. Giovanni's life is regulated by a familiar pattern of routines and interests: walking, reading, listening to music. One Sunday morning, Giovanni suggests that he and his son enjoy a run together, but he is urgently called away to see a patient. He cannot go running with his son, and Andrea leaves to go diving with his friends. This leads to an event that changes the family's lives forever.

I Am Self Sufficient (Io sono un autarchico):
A parody of the myths of anti-culture, its ideological confusion, self- satisfaction and lack of direction.

Behold The Man (Ecce bombo):
This non-narrative, sketch-based film is a non-stop feast of antic and black humor. The sketches are framed within the context of a Roman student's school year, which is disrupted by political and amorous misadventures. The title Ecce Bombo means "Behold the Bumblebee" and spoofs both the ancient biblical phrase (in English, "behold the man") and the then-current wave of terrorism and bombings. This was director Nanni Moretti's first full-length feature, shot with a small but significant budget of $350,000 and featuring a large number of young previously unknown talents.

Golden Dreams (Sogni d'oro):
In scenes that can be read as fantasy, reality, or dreams - or somewhere in-between all three - the director and writer Nanni Moretti takes the viewers into his world: as a director fighting a flawed establishment, as an artist seeking a true expression of his visions, and as a neurotic, disturbed invidividual trying to cope. In many of the scenes, it is difficult to differentiate between the three, and may not matter in the long run because all three aspects are one person - Michele in the film, Moretti in real life. Lacing his scenes with witty asides about the film industry and its inhabitants, Moretti has Michele embattled with a crass, Neapolitan director making a musical about the 1968 student demonstrations. Michele gets into physical fights with his mother - and at the same time, has a creative block to finishing his film titled "Freud's Mother." The crazy characterization of Freud as a "momma's boy" in the film would have made anyone's mother run for psychotherapy. In the end, the viewer will have to put all the composite parts together to come to a conclusion about the meaning of this multi-level story.

Bianca:
The comedic touches in Bianca and its setting at the "Marilyn Monroe High School" whose faculty need the services of the school's clinical psychologist, are at odds with the somber theme of a schizophrenic math teacher and a series of murders. That cinematic split personality leaves the film in limbo. The math teacher Michele (Nanni Moretti, also the director) is clearly neurotic, tries to "straighten out" the lives of his friends whether they like it or not, and is torn between his powerful attraction to the French teacher Bianca (Laura Morante) and his terror of intimacy -- between his need for a normal family life and his neuroses. When people start disappearing at the school, Michele becomes the number one suspect in the police investigation -- not a long stretch given his behavior.

The Mass Is Ended (La messa è finita):
Onetime campus radical Nanni Moretti (who also directed this film) renounces his past to become a priest. Returning to his home village, Moretti is appalled at the lack of religious reverence amongst the townsfolk. Unable to communicate with any of his old friends, who've all gleefully succumbed to the Deadly Sins, Moretti cannot even count on solace from his own family, a screwed-up aggregation which gives the word "dysfunctional" several new meanings. The priest finally gives up on the village and transfers to a parish far, far away. Despite the somber tone of the past few sentences, the Italian-filmed Mass Is Ended (Messa E' Finita) is actually a comedy, its humor stemming from the nonplussed reactions of Moretti and the believable performances of the supporting cast. The film won a special jury prize at the Berlin Film Festival.

Red Wood Pigeon (Palombella rossa):
This humorous and peculiarly Italian movie is unlikely to have been released outside that country, largely because of the intricacies of its political references. Writer/producer/director/lead actor Nanni Moretti has filmed a semi-autobiographical story which combines the action in a rousing water polo championship game (the film's name, Palombella Rossa, refers to a water polo move) with the efforts of the team's amnesiac star player (Moretti) to remember his past. In particular, he wants to remember why he is a communist. As the story unfolds, references to well over 20 years of Italian communist history and infighting emerge.

Dear Diary (Caro diario):
Semi-autobiographical story about the filmmaker told in three parts. "On My Vespa" is set in Rome, and follows Moretti riding his scooter, meeting Jennifer Beals, and going to the movies. "Islands" examines how the politically committed late-1960s generation has become cynical and isolated. "Doctors" is about Moretti's fight against cancer.

April (Aprile):
Film essayist Nanni Moretti, winner of the Cannes "Best Director" Award for his memorable Caro Diario (1994), continues in a diaristic mode with this Italian-French comedy-drama blending his political observations with his personal life, a chronicle of a two-and-a-half year period that includes the pregnancy of his partner Silvia Nono and the April birth of their son Pietro. Moretti putts about Rome on his Vespa, visits childhood haunts, watches an Albanian refugee boat arrive, writes letters that are never mailed, looks over a rainy Milan anti-right demonstration, and begins work on a musical set in the '50s, including the iridescent production number seen here. Other music ranges from Latin-American songs to Afro and Italian pop. Moretti's anxieties and humor, along with the self-aware creative cul-de-sacs of his autobiographical approach, often bring Woody Allen to mind.

The Son's Room (La stanza del figlio):
A close family in a small city in northern Italy. The father of two teenage children, Giovanni is a psychoanalyst leading a quiet existence. One Sunday morning he is called out on an emergency and is not able to go jogging with his son as promised. His son leaves to go scuba diving with friends, but never returns...

The Caiman (Il caimano):
Controversial Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berluscoi is just one of the targets of writer and director Nanni Moretti's satiric focus in this sharp comedy-drama. In the 1970's, Bruno (Silvio Orlando) was one of Italy's most daring and best-respected filmmakers, while his wife Paola (Margherita Buy) was a leading box-office star. However, come the new millennium, things are a whole lot different for Bruno -- Paola is divorcing him, his production company is on the verge of bankruptcy, and he can't get a new project off the ground. When Teresa (Jasmine Trinca), a young woman down on her luck, approaches Bruno with a script, he agrees to take on the project, even though he hasn't read it and doesn't know how he'll raise the money. Bruno discovers he's put himself in hot water when he reads the screenplay and discovers it's a frontal assault on Silvio Berluscoi that doesn't shy away from allegations of his connection to organized crime, tax evasion, bribery and influence peddling. While Italian firms won't dare touch the project, Bruno discovers a Polish financier (Jerzy Stuhr) who will put up the money, but under one condition -- Bruno has to persuade box-office idol Marco Pulici (Michele Placidio) to play Berluscoi. Il Caimano (aka The Caiman) received its North American premier at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival.

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