Italian Film Festival 2009 - 10 Film Collection - 5-DVD Box Set ( Victory / L'ultimo Pulcinella / Ex / Il mattino ha l'oro in bocca / Come Dio comanda (Comme Dieu le veut) / L'uomo che ama / Giulia non esce la sera / Generazione mille euro / Fortapàsc / Il papà di Giovanna ) ( Vincere / The Last Pulcinella / Many Kisses Later / The Early Bird Catches the Worm / As God Commands / The Man Who Loves / Giulia Doesn't Go Out at Night / 1000 Euro Generation / Fortapasc / Giovanna's Father )

Italian Film Festival 2009 - 10 Film Collection - 5-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Victory / L'ultimo Pulcinella / Ex / Il mattino ha l'oro in bocca / Come Dio comanda (Comme Dieu le veut) / L'uomo che ama / Giulia non esce la sera / Generazione mille euro / Fortapàsc / Il papà di Giovanna
Alternate Title: Vincere / The Last Pulcinella / Many Kisses Later / The Early Bird Catches the Worm / As God Commands / The Man Who Loves / Giulia Doesn't Go Out at Night / 1000 Euro Generation / Fortapasc / Giovanna's Father
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
David Donatello Awards
European Film Awards
Moscow International Film Festival
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

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

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
1060 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2008 - 2009 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Marco Bellocchio
Maurizio Scaparro
Fausto Brizzi
Francesco Patierno
Gabriele Salvatores
Maria Sole Tognazzi
Giuseppe Piccioni
Massimo Venier
Marco Risi
Pupi Avati

Written By:
Marco Bellocchio
Rafael Azcona
Roberto Rossellini
Fausto Brizzi
Massimiliano Bruno
Francesco Patierno
Marco Baldini
Niccolò Ammaniti
Ivan Cotroneo
Maria Sole Tognazzi
Giuseppe Piccioni
Federica Pontremoli
Antonio Incorvaia
Alessandro Rimassa
Marco Risi
Jim Carrington
Pupi Avati
Antonio Avati

Actors:
Giovanna Mezzogiorno ..... Ida Dalser
Filippo Timi ..... Benito Mussolini
Fausto Russo Alesi ..... Riccardo Paicher
Michela Cescon ..... Rachele Mussolini
Pier Giorgio Bellocchio ..... Pietro Fedele
Corrado Invernizzi ..... Dottor Cappelletti
Paolo Pierobon ..... Giulio Bernardi
Bruno Cariello ..... Giudice
Francesca Picozza ..... Adelina Dalser
Simona Nobili ..... Madre Superiora
Vanessa Scalera ..... Suora Misericordiosa
Giovanna Mori ..... Tedesca
Patrizia Bettini ..... Cantante
Silvia Ferretti ..... Scarpette rosse
Corinne Castelli ..... Lacrime
Massimo Ranieri ..... Michelangelo
Adriana Asti ..... Marie
Jean Sorel ..... Paola
Valeria Cavalli ..... Francesco
Domenico Balsamo ..... Cecilia
Carla Ferraro ..... Faiza
Margot Dufrene ..... Commandant Richard
Georges Corraface ..... Propietario del teatro
Antonio Casagrande ..... Mohamed
Mohamed Zouaoui
Claudia Gerini ..... Elisa
Flavio Insinna ..... Don Lorenzo
Silvio Orlando ..... Luca
Nancy Brilli ..... Caterina
Gianmarco Tognazzi ..... Corrado
Fabio De Luigi ..... Paolo
Alessandro Gassman ..... Davide
Claudio Bisio ..... Sergio
Vincenzo Salemme ..... Filippo
Elena Sofia Ricci ..... Michela
Carla Signoris ..... Loredana
Cristiana Capotondi ..... Giulia
Giorgia Wurth ..... Roberta
Martina Pinto ..... Valentina
Cécile Cassel ..... Monique
Elio Germano ..... Marco
Laura Chiatti ..... Cristiana
Martina Stella ..... Cristina
Carlo Monni ..... Padre
Corrado Fortuna ..... Rosario Fiorello
Donato Placido ..... Giggetto
Antonio Buonomo ..... Aniello Apicello
Dario Vergassola ..... Claudio Cecchetto
Gerardo Amato ..... Frankie
Raffaella Lebboroni ..... Marco's mother
Gianmarco Tognazzi ..... Danny
Umberto Orsini ..... Uncle Lino
Francesco Casisa ..... Tommy
Pietro Fornaciari ..... Pietro Ceri
Edoardo Gabbriellini ..... Gianfranco Monti
Filippo Timi ..... Rino Zena
Elio Germano ..... Quattro Formaggi
Alvaro Caleca ..... Cristiano Zena
Angelica Leo ..... Fabiana
Fabio De Luigi ..... Trecca
Alessandro Mizzi ..... Uomo SUV
Corinna Agustoni ..... Maria Pirro
Alessandro Bressanello ..... Marchetta
Ludovica Di Rocco ..... Esmeralda
Valentina Sussi ..... Ragazza Centro Sociale
Andrea De Nori ..... Alex
Vanja Serra ..... Amico di Alex
Stefano Rota ..... Medico Ambulanza
Vasco Mirandola ..... Dottor Brolli
Giuseppe Cristiano ..... Infermiere
Pierfrancesco Favino ..... Roberto
Monica Bellucci ..... Alba
Kseniya Rappoport ..... Sara
Michele Alhaique ..... Carlo
Glen Blackhall ..... Yuri
Piera Degli Esposti ..... Giulia
Arnaldo Ninchi ..... Vittorio
Marisa Paredes ..... Dottoressa Campo
Fausto Maria Sciarappa ..... Dottore
Valerio Mastandrea ..... Guido
Valeria Golino ..... Giulia
Sonia Bergamasco ..... Benedetta
Lidia Vitale ..... Agente Donna
Chiara Nicola ..... Viola
Paolo Sassanelli ..... Bruno
Antonia Liskova ..... Eva
Domiziana Cardinali ..... Costanza
Jacopo Domenicucci ..... Filippo
Piera Degli Esposti ..... Attilia
Jacopo Maria Bicocchi ..... Giussi
Edo Monaci-Toschi ..... Cigliati
Federica Pontremoli ..... Stuart negresco
Renato Cesa De Marchi ..... Uomo Anziano
Valeria Sabel ..... Donna Anziana
Alessandro Tiberi ..... Matteo Moretti
Valentina Lodovini ..... Beatrice Ferroni
Carolina Crescentini ..... Angelica Garrone
Francesco Mandelli ..... Francesco
Francesco Brandi ..... Fausto 'Faustino' Zaniboni
Francesca Inaudi ..... Valentina
Paolo Villaggio ..... Il Professore
Steffan Boje ..... Mark Winterbottom
Roberto Citran ..... Tassista
Natalino Balasso ..... Landolfi
Lucia Ocone ..... Administration employee
Demian Sabini ..... Commesso Hotel Barcellona
Libero De Rienzo ..... Giancarlo Siani
Valentina Lodovini ..... Daniela
Michele Riondino ..... Rico
Massimiliano Gallo ..... Valentino Gionta
Ernesto Mahieux ..... Sasà
Salvatore Cantalupo ..... Ferrara
Gigio Morra ..... Donnarumma
Gianfranco Gallo ..... Lorenzo Nuvoletta
Antonio Buonomo ..... Geometra
Roberto Calabrese ..... Ciro
Raffaele Vassallo ..... Yu
Kyung Mi Lee
Mimmo Mignemi
Nadia Carlomagno
Salvatore Striano
Silvio Orlando ..... Michele Casali
Francesca Neri ..... Delia Casali
Ezio Greggio ..... Sergio Ghia
Alba Rohrwacher ..... Giovanna Casali
Serena Grandi ..... Lella Ghia
Manuela Morabito ..... Elide Traxler
Gianfranco Jannuzzo ..... Preside Apolloni
Paolo Graziosi ..... Andrea Taxler
Valeria Bilello ..... Marcella Taxler
Sandro Dori ..... Belletti
Rita Carlini ..... Lia
Antonio Pisu ..... Cicci Dalmastri
Edoardo Romano ..... Pradelli
Lorena Miller ..... Cassiera
Chiara Sani ..... Amabile

Synopsis:

In 2009 the tradition continues - with another brilliant selection of Italy's most highly acclaimed and multi-award winning contemporary films, sourced from the Cannes, Berlin, Rome and Venice Film Festivals. Highlights include our opening selection VINCERE from Marco Bellochio, this year's box office champion MANY KISSES LATER (Molti Baci Dopo), Marco Risi's stunning debut FORTAPÀSC, Pupi Avati's acclaimed GIOVANNA'S FATHER (Il papà di Giovanna) and Ferzan Oztepek's A PERFECT DAY (Un giorno perfetto). This year's Festival also presents, to mark our 10th anniversary, a selection of outstanding films from the Festival archives that I have personally chosen. These are the gems that represent the very best of contemporary Italian filmmaking and I strongly urge you to either re-visit or discover them for the first time. Relive the Highlights of the 2009 Lavazza Film Festival!

Films Included:
Victory (VINCERE) - Nominee Palme d'Or Cannes Film Festival 2009
FORTAPASC (Fortapàsc) - Winner Best Director - Marco Pisi Italian Golden Globes 2009
THE LAST PULCINELLA (L'ultimo Pulcinella)
MANY KISSES LATER (Ex)
THE EARLY BIRD CATCHES THE WORM (Il mattino ha l'oro in bocca)
AS GOD COMMANDS (Come Dio comanda)
THE MAN WHO LOVES (L'uomo che ama)
GULIA DOESN'T GO OUT AT NIGHT (Giulia non esce la sera)
1000 EURO GENERATION (Generazione mille euro)
GIOVANNA'S FATHER (Il papà di Giovanna)

Vincere (2009)
There are secrets in the life of Mussolini: namely Benito Albino - son to first wife Ida Dalser, who was born, acknowledged, and then swiftly denied. It is a dark page in history, one ignored in the official biography of the Duce. When Ida meets Mussolini in Milan, he is the editor of Avanti and an ardent Socialist who intends to guide the masses towards an anti-clerical, anti-monarchical, socially emancipated future. Ida, still reeling from a fleeting encounter with him in Trento, truly believes in the man and his ideas. In order to finance Popolo d'Italia, a newspaper he had founded and the nucleus of the forthcoming Fascist Party, Ida sells everything she has. When the First World War erupts, Benito Mussolini enrols in the army and disappears. When Ida finds him again in a military hospital, he is tended to by Rachele whom he has just married. Ida demands her rights as Mussolini's true wife and the mother of his first-born son. She is led away by force; physically restrained and tortured for eleven years. But Ida will not give up without a fight. While the history is fascinating, it's the film's mesmerizing style that takes the breath away, alternately theatrical, spectacular, intimate and resounding. 'Vincere' is a gripping film that combines drama, archive footage, and music creating a highly cinematic oratorio of enormous rhetorical force.

The Last Pulcinella (2008)
The Last Pulcinella' is liberally inspired by Roberto Rossellini's unedited screenplay and directed by acclaimed theatre maestro Maurizio Scaparro. A story of the difficult relationship between a young Neapolitan in search of new creative inspirations and a life far away from his hometown, and a father who hardly manages to survive as a street artist. Massimo Ranieri (one of Italy's greatest pop singers) stars as the struggling middle-aged actor Michelangelo, separated from his wife, who performs 'stories of Pulcinella' as a street artist in Naples' piazzas. His son Francesco (Domenico Balsamo) flees to Paris after witnessing a Camorra crime. Michelangelo follows him after a tip-off by his estranged wife even though he does not speak a word of French. With the help of an old friend Dorient (Jean Sorel), and an ageless actress (Adriana Asti) who lives in an abandoned theatre, the father and son put on a show that will reinvigorate their often strained relationship.

Many Kisses Later (2009)
The 2009 Italian box office champion 'Many Kisses Later' (also know as 'Ex'), from Fausto Brizzi, is a brisk romantic comedy about that crazy little thing called love. It does indeed begin with declarations of love and plenty of kisses, but the question is raised: does love go on? The film follows six couples between Christmas and Valentine's Day in episodes that intertwine and revolve around the end of a love affair and the ways former lovers can shape our lives. Exes are like the Phoenix rising from the ashes... not dead but rather lying in wait. 'Many Kisses Later' offers illustrations of relationships that have turned into hatred, into friendship, and ones where the flame of love still burns. Some lovers have lost sight of each other by choice, others by a bizarre twist of fate, others by mistake. But the film's message is clear: exes remain a part of our lives and who we are, for better or worse, is at least in part due to them.

The Early Bird Catches the Worm (2008)
Florence, early seventies. Marco is a young man, he still live with his parent and has a girlfriend, Cristina. He doesn't know what to do in his life but he is very passionate about music so he starts doing the DJ in clubs and then to host a program on the radio. Despite of the success Marco is unhappy and apathetic. The lack of emotions will come true one day when he enter in a race, from that moment Marco's life will change, he begins to lose more money and he also begins to poker. Luckily it is noted by the famous producer Cecchetto that brings him to Milan for a test for Radio Deejay. Marco, all alone in a huge city starts to bet again.

As God Commands (2008)
Adesolate northern Italian town set beneath majestic mountains. Scattered houses built along a highway, in the midst of enormous lumber yards, shopping centres and neon. Rino and Cristiano Zena, father and son, live here. Rino makes do with odd jobs. Cristiano is in middle school. It is the two of them against the world. Rino raises his son the best he can. Cristiano worships his father with a misguided but powerful love. Their lone friend, Quattro Formaggi, has not been right in the head since an accident. He spends his days building a strange manger scene made of trash taken from the town dump...

The Man Who Loves (2008)
Maria Sole Tognazzi follows her actor/writer/director father Ugo and brother Ricky in an accomplished family tradition with her intense third feature that opened the 2008 Rome International Film Festival. The film traces two significant, successive and opposite love stories of the almost forty year-old pharmacist Roberto (Pierfrancesco Favino). One is with Sara (Ksenia Rappoport 'The Unknown Woman') a hotel desk manager in Torino, while the other is with Alba (Monica Bellucci), a chic art gallery curator. Roberto envies the romantic success of his beloved, gay younger brother Carlo (Michele Alhaique) who is deliriously happy with lover Yuri (Glen Blackhall), but can't find the right emotional groove himself. The game of love has Roberto assume opposing roles in his own relationships, experiencing both the sweetness and cruelty of love, and ultimately love's own revenge.

Giulia Doesn't Go Out at Night (2009)
Guido writes novels and short stories; he's detached, diffident. When his wife and teenage daughter move, he stays behind to write. He takes swimming lessons; his teacher is Giulia, somber, perhaps melancholy. They talk from time to time; he invites her out, and she says she doesn't go out at night. We see Guido's stories dramatized - unhappy characters in search of something. Guido helps his daughter navigate a first crush; he disengages from a campaign to win a literary prize. His wife challenges him to reconnect with her. Instead, he focuses on Giulia: drawing her out, learning of her past. Then he intervenes. Can a novelist write reality?

The 1000 Euro Generation (2009)
In Milan, Matteo is an underemployed physicist, giving the occasional lecture at a university while working at a PR firm where he knows he'll be fired. Without his really trying, two women are attracted to him, a blond and a brunette. The blond is Angelica; they meet smoking on the office rooftop. To his surprise, she has clout in the company and soon has him flying off (with her) to make presentations. The brunette is Beatrice, a new flatmate, hoping for a teaching job in the national service. Angelica dangles a posting with her in Barcelona; Beatrice is simply Beatrice. Will Matteo figure out what he wants - and decide before opportunity passes him by?

Fortapasc (2009)
1985. Giancarlo Siani, a reporter for Il Mattino, is killed with ten pistol shots. An easygoing 26 year-old, he loves his life and his work: he gathers information and checks it. We see the last four months of his life. Every day he goes from his home in the Vomero neighbourhood to the hell of Torre Annunziata, kingdom of crime boss Valentino Gionta. Giancarlo is investigating corruption in earthquake reconstruction efforts. Amidst the mafiosi, corrupt politicians, frightened prosecutors and helpless policemen, he is like a lily in the mud. The night of his murder, he is supposed to go with his girlfriend to a concert by rock star Vasco Rossi...

Giovanna's Father (2008)
Bologna 1938. Michele Casali has a serious problem. His teenage daughter, Giovanna, has just killed her best friend in a jealous frenzy. The girl is declared to be incompetent and is committed to a psychiatric hospital. While inside, she spends her time in almost total isolation. The only person who comes to see her is her father. His visitations strengthen the already strong father-daughter relationship from which Delia, the girl's mother, has always been excluded. In the winter of 1953, Delia and Giovanna's eyes cross paths in a small cinema in Bologna: Giovanna is by now much better and is in the company of her doting father. Her mother no longer has any doubts--this is the start of a new life together.

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