The Discovery at Dawn ( La scoperta dell'alba )

The Discovery at Dawn (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: La scoperta dell'alba
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

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

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

Running Time:
85 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Behind the scenes
Interactive Menu
Music Video
Scene Access
Short Film

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

Directed By:
Susanna Nicchiarelli

Written By:
Walter Veltroni
Susanna Nicchiarelli

Actors:
Margherita Buy ..... Caterina Astengo
Susanna Nicchiarelli ..... Barbara Astengo
Sergio Rubini ..... Lorenzo, Barbara's boyfriend
Lino Guanciale ..... Marco Tessandori
Renato Carpentieri ..... Giovanni Tonini
Lina Sastri ..... Marianna Dall'Acqua
Sara Fabiano ..... Caterina. bambina
Anita Cappucci ..... Barbara, bambina
Gabriele Spinelli ..... Giuseppe
Sara Lazzaro ..... Ragazza staff

Synopsis:

Rome, 1981: Professor Mario Tessandori is shot in the university courtyard and dies in the arms of Lucio Astengo, his friend and colleague. A few weeks later, Astengo vanishes mysteriously. Flash forward to 2011. Caterina and Barbara Astengo, six and 12 when their father passed away, put up for sale their family cottage by the sea, which has long since been abandoned. The house is filled with memories of a childhood interrupted by the father's disappearance, a broken family that never reassembled. In one corner, there's an old phone still attached to the outlet. Caterina picks it up and discovers that, inexplicably, it works, even though the line is disconnected. Playfully, she dials her home number from 30 years earlier and hears the voice of a child responding on the other end. In shock, she realizes that she is speaking to her 12-year-old self, a week before the death of her father. She's been given a second chance, if not to save him then at least to uncover the truth. Wonderful performances by Margarita Buy and Nicchiarelli herself as Caterina's sister.

The film opens with Mario Tessandori's assassination by the Red Brigades in Rome in 1981. Hit by seven gunshots in the crowded courtyard of the University where he taught, he dies in the arms of his friend and colleague Lucio Astengo, who, shortly thereafter, disappears into thin air. Thirty years later, Catherine and Barbara Astengo, Lucio's now grown daughters (at the time of their father's death they were aged six and twelve), decide to sell the seaside house which having never been used is now in a state of disrepair. The only thing that seems to be left without signs of wear due to time is a phone; Catherine lifts the handset and the phone has a dialling tone, as a joke, she dials the number of the house where they had lived their childhood and incredibly from the other end finds herself as a small girl - back 30 years in time - to 1981.

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