The Trick in the Sheet ( L'imbroglio nel lenzuolo ) ( La trampa de la luz )

The Trick in the Sheet (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: L'imbroglio nel lenzuolo
Alternate Title: La trampa de la luz
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:
105 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Behind the scenes
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Deleted Scenes
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2010 and produced in:
Italy ( Italy, Greece )
Spain ( Spain, Portugal )

Directed By:
Alfonso Arau

Written By:
Giovanna Cucinotta
Francesco Costa

Actors:
Geraldine Chaplin ..... Alma
Anne Parillaud ..... Beatrice
Maria Grazia Cucinotta ..... Marianna
Angélica Aragón ..... Teresa
Miguel Ángel Silvestre ..... Giocondo
Primo Reggiani ..... Federico
Pep Munné ..... Elena
Giselda Volodi ..... Elisa de Valory
Nathalie Caldonazzo ..... Paesana casa Alma
Aurora Quattrocchi ..... Don Antonio
Pietro Ragusa ..... Pecoraro
Ernesto Mahieux ..... Console Burke
Ralph Palka ..... Virginia
Mimosa Campironi ..... Opera singer
Maria Entraigues

Synopsis:

The cinema, the big news of the moment, the miracle that nobody knows yet give an explanation, won the South of Italy. Is about to begin a new era characterized by progress and new inventions. The "sciantose" are dispossessed from their role of "femme fatale" to be replaced by "fake bitches" that charming smile and naughty on the sheet, close libraries, theaters lose their audience. Every night thousands of spectators flock to the theater to watch the first projections ... "Those little ray of light that bring to life on a sheet" ... Frederick also fascinated them. Looking at the flickering images that run on the sheet, the boy realizes the true magic of this new invention. He realizes that the cinema gives immortality, defeats death, something that medicine can not do. He decides to abandon her medical studies with great sorrow of his mother Alma, to make ends meet, play the piano during the first screenings of silent films in the theater of Don Gennaro Pecoraro. Don Gennaro lecherous producer of Neapolitan origin, tired of projecting films of O THERE, confided to Frederick, it would make his first film. The boy has a flash of genius improvised stage manager and convinces him to entrust the task of writing a new history, as requested by Don Gennaro will have a beautiful female protagonist with "zizza" huge while the second sister of Don Gennaro, Elena, puritanical and bigoted, to be an uplifting story. The choice is the biblical story of "La Casta Susanna. Federico bring confusion and havoc In the fascinating life of Beatrice, writer and journalist Turin, moved to Sicily in a beautiful villa on the banks of a small lake, to write a story serialized in the local newspaper, the Observer of the South will also scandal and shame in the existence of Marianna, unwitting star of the film. A wild beauty, poor and illiterate, who earns a living by removing the evil eye and treating the villagers with medicinal herbs and potions.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 19 December, 2010.

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