Twice Born ( Venuto al mondo )

Twice Born (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Venuto al mondo
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )
German ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
German ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
129 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2012 and produced in:
Italy ( Italy, Greece )
Spain ( Spain, Portugal )

Directed By:
Sergio Castellitto

Written By:
Margaret Mazzantini
Sergio Castellitto

Actors:
Penelope Cruz ..... Gemma
Emile Hirsch ..... Diego
Adnan Haskovic ..... Gojco
Saadet Aksoy ..... Aska
Pietro Castellitto ..... Pietro
Mira Furlan ..... Velida
Jovan Divjak ..... Gemma's husband
Vinicio Marchioni ..... Doctor
Branko Djuric ..... Psicologa
Jane Birkin ..... Armando
Luca De Filippo ..... Giuliano
Sergio Castellitto ..... Official Ministry
Bruno Armando
Fausto Russo Alesi
Juan Carlos Vellido

Synopsis:

Italian actor/director Sergio Castellitto takes the helm for this romantic war drama concerning a mother who finds her memories of a tragic romance stirred during a trip to Sarajevo with her teenage son. The year was 1984. With the Winter Olympics fast approaching, Gemma (Penélope Cruz) was in Bosnia when she fell in love with dashing American photographer Diego (Emile Hirsch). Their passions burned bright during their brief time together, but shortly after Gemma voiced her desire to become a mother, civil war erupted and plunged the country - and their romance - into chaos. Flash forward to present day, when Gemma receives word that an exhibition of Diego's photographs is about to go on display in Sarajevo. Still very much haunted by her complex and difficult past, Gemma boards a plane bound for Sarajevo with her teenage son. The moment she steps off the plane, the memories come rushing back. Later, as Gemma escorts her son around the city sharing stories from her youth, everything she sees seems to stir vivid memories of that ill-fated love affair, and the many ways that the harrowing experience shaped her into the person she is today.

As an actor, Sergio Castellitto, a brooding and playful screen presence, especially in films directed by Jacques Rivette, is capable of impressive subtlety. As a director, though - notably of 'Don't Move' (2005) and now 'Twice Born,' both starring Penélope Cruz - he seems to go out of his way to discourage precisely that quality. A throbbing melodrama set partly during the Balkan wars of the early 1990s (and based on a novel by Margaret Mazzantini, Mr. Castellitto's wife), 'Twice Born' generously allows each member of its talented, cosmopolitan cast an opportunity to howl and scream and tremble and generally overdo it.

A mother brings her teenage son to Sarajevo, where his father died in the Bosnian conflict years ago.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 01 April, 2015.

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