German actors Elisa Schlott (“Das Boot” TV series), Max Riemelt (“Sleeping Dog”) and Alma Hasun (“Corsage”) are set to star in Italian director Silvio Soldini’s drama “The Tasters,” which reconstructs the untold true story of the women conscripted to be Adolf Hitler’s food tasters.
Shooting is set to start on Friday in Italy’s northern Alto Adige region on the Nazi-era drama, which is being pre-sold at the Cannes Marché du Film by Rome-based Vision Distribution.
Soldini is known for sophisticated comedy “Bread and Tulips,” which launched from Cannes, and relationship dramas “Days and Clouds” and “Come Undone.”
“The Tasters,” which will mark Soldini’s first foray into German-language cinema, is based on the bestselling book “At the Wolf’s Table” by Italian author Rosella Postorino. The story follows a group of women who were recruited by the SS in 1943 to make sure that the food being served to Hitler was not poisoned.
Shooting is set to start on Friday in Italy’s northern Alto Adige region on the Nazi-era drama, which is being pre-sold at the Cannes Marché du Film by Rome-based Vision Distribution.
Soldini is known for sophisticated comedy “Bread and Tulips,” which launched from Cannes, and relationship dramas “Days and Clouds” and “Come Undone.”
“The Tasters,” which will mark Soldini’s first foray into German-language cinema, is based on the bestselling book “At the Wolf’s Table” by Italian author Rosella Postorino. The story follows a group of women who were recruited by the SS in 1943 to make sure that the food being served to Hitler was not poisoned.
- 5/16/2024
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Veteran Italian auteur Silvio Soldini is set to direct “The Tasters,” which will reconstruct the true untold story of the women conscripted to be Adolf Hitler’s food tasters.
The Nazi-era drama — which will mark Soldini’s first foray into German-language cinema — is based on the bestselling book “At the Wolf’s Table,” by Italian author Rosella Pastorino, about a group of women who were recruited by the SS in 1943 to make sure that food to be served to Hitler was not poisoned. Forced to eat what might kill them, the tasters start to split into two factions: those loyal to Hitler, and those who insist they aren’t Nazis, even as they risk their lives everyday for the Führer. “At the Wolf’s Table” has been translated in 46 countries.
Vision distribution is launching international sales in Cannes on “The Tasters,” which is eying a fall- winter 2023 production start. The...
The Nazi-era drama — which will mark Soldini’s first foray into German-language cinema — is based on the bestselling book “At the Wolf’s Table,” by Italian author Rosella Pastorino, about a group of women who were recruited by the SS in 1943 to make sure that food to be served to Hitler was not poisoned. Forced to eat what might kill them, the tasters start to split into two factions: those loyal to Hitler, and those who insist they aren’t Nazis, even as they risk their lives everyday for the Führer. “At the Wolf’s Table” has been translated in 46 countries.
Vision distribution is launching international sales in Cannes on “The Tasters,” which is eying a fall- winter 2023 production start. The...
- 5/19/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Milan’s Anteo Palazzo del Cinema is set to become Italy’s first moviegoing venue to program VR cinema on a year-round basis.
The Anteo, a 10-screen cityplex considered a temple of quality cinema in the northern Italian city, is launching the VR space, as it celebrates its 44th year of activity. The launch is being made in tandem with Rai Cinema, the film arm of Italian state broadcaster Rai that is providing the first batch of VR titles.
Anteo now has a space with 20 VR chair platforms, each with a Pico G2 4K VR headset, where for a low €5 ($5.4) ticket price viewers can watch a selection of titles. These currently include: “Lockdown 2020 – Invisible Italy,” a doc by Omar Rashid taking viewers on a tour of the beauty and desolation of Italian cities such as Venice, Florence and Rome during the pandemic; “The Divine Comedy VR – Inferno”; and “Volcano – The Life That’s Sleeping,...
The Anteo, a 10-screen cityplex considered a temple of quality cinema in the northern Italian city, is launching the VR space, as it celebrates its 44th year of activity. The launch is being made in tandem with Rai Cinema, the film arm of Italian state broadcaster Rai that is providing the first batch of VR titles.
Anteo now has a space with 20 VR chair platforms, each with a Pico G2 4K VR headset, where for a low €5 ($5.4) ticket price viewers can watch a selection of titles. These currently include: “Lockdown 2020 – Invisible Italy,” a doc by Omar Rashid taking viewers on a tour of the beauty and desolation of Italian cities such as Venice, Florence and Rome during the pandemic; “The Divine Comedy VR – Inferno”; and “Volcano – The Life That’s Sleeping,...
- 5/5/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Italian twins Damiano and Fabio D’Innocenzo, who made a splash in Berlin last year with “Bad Tales,” are back on set with dark thriller “America Latina” toplining Elio Germano, who was at Berlin 2020 with two pics: “Bad Tales” and “Hidden Away,” for which he scored a Silver Bear.
Shooting started March 1 on “America Latina.” Its story details are being kept under wraps other than it’s “a love story and like all love stories it’s obviously a thriller,” as the brothers cryptically put it recently speaking to the Italian press.
“Bad Tales,” in which Germano played the sadistic father in a dysfunctional suburban family, won the Berlin 2020 best screenplay award.
“America Latina” is being co-produced by Lorenzo Mieli’s The Apartment, a Fremantle company, and Vision Distribution, which will release the film theatrically in Italy. Le Pacte is also on board and will be distributing France.
Vision Distribution, which...
Shooting started March 1 on “America Latina.” Its story details are being kept under wraps other than it’s “a love story and like all love stories it’s obviously a thriller,” as the brothers cryptically put it recently speaking to the Italian press.
“Bad Tales,” in which Germano played the sadistic father in a dysfunctional suburban family, won the Berlin 2020 best screenplay award.
“America Latina” is being co-produced by Lorenzo Mieli’s The Apartment, a Fremantle company, and Vision Distribution, which will release the film theatrically in Italy. Le Pacte is also on board and will be distributing France.
Vision Distribution, which...
- 3/1/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
The Italian director is telling the tale of a group of friends united by their passion for music. Monday 26 October saw filming commence on Tutto qua, Davide Ferrario’s new film which is produced by Lionello Cerri and Cristiana Mainardi on behalf of Lumière & Co. in league with Rai Cinema. The film shoot is scheduled to last 6 weeks. The veteran Lombardy-based director, writer and film critic who’s best known for films Guardami, selected for the 1999 Venice Film Festivals’ Dreams and Visions section, After Midnight and Freedom is making his return to fiction feature films having shot three documentaries - Devil’s Soup, Sexxx and Cento anni - over the past 6 years. The film tells the tale of a group of adult friends, each leading their own separate lives but united by the passion which first led to their meeting: music. The Boys, this being the name of...
- 10/28/2020
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte over the weekend said Italian movie theaters will be allowed to reopen on June 15 as coronavirus lockdown restrictions lift. However, it remains to be seen how many cinemas will actually be operational by then.
While it’s unlikely many of Italy’s roughly 4,000 screens will be active next month, the country’s distributors and exhibitors are busy gearing up for summer releases and finding creative solutions for moviegoing to resume.
“In order to open movie theaters, audiences need to feel safe and relaxed” says Andrea Occhipinti, who heads Italian distributor-producer Lucky Red and is also chief of national arthouse theater chain Circuito Cinema.
“As exhibitors, we need to understand how many people will actually go (to the movies),” Occhipinti adds, pointing out that if theaters operate under 30% capacity “it will be a bit complicated economically.”
The other crucial challenge for Italy’s arthouse circuit in...
While it’s unlikely many of Italy’s roughly 4,000 screens will be active next month, the country’s distributors and exhibitors are busy gearing up for summer releases and finding creative solutions for moviegoing to resume.
“In order to open movie theaters, audiences need to feel safe and relaxed” says Andrea Occhipinti, who heads Italian distributor-producer Lucky Red and is also chief of national arthouse theater chain Circuito Cinema.
“As exhibitors, we need to understand how many people will actually go (to the movies),” Occhipinti adds, pointing out that if theaters operate under 30% capacity “it will be a bit complicated economically.”
The other crucial challenge for Italy’s arthouse circuit in...
- 5/18/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Feature will release in Italy on March 8 to coincide with Women’s Day
Screen can reveal a first trailer for Italian director Marco Tullio Giordana’s timely sexual harassment drama Nome Di Donna ahead of its market premiere at the Efm.
Cristiana Capotondi tops a strong female cast as single mother Nina who gets a temporary job at an old people’s home.
She desperately needs the money but soon discovers the post comes with unexpected strings attached when the institution’s powerful director Marco Torri attempts to have sex with her in his office.
Nina comes to the realisation that Torri has been sexually preying on the home’s female care-workers for years and that the dark secret has been covered up by both the staff and the local priest.
With the support of a female-rights lawyer, Nina breaks her silence putting herself at odds the other staff members and the Roman Catholic Church in what promises...
Screen can reveal a first trailer for Italian director Marco Tullio Giordana’s timely sexual harassment drama Nome Di Donna ahead of its market premiere at the Efm.
Cristiana Capotondi tops a strong female cast as single mother Nina who gets a temporary job at an old people’s home.
She desperately needs the money but soon discovers the post comes with unexpected strings attached when the institution’s powerful director Marco Torri attempts to have sex with her in his office.
Nina comes to the realisation that Torri has been sexually preying on the home’s female care-workers for years and that the dark secret has been covered up by both the staff and the local priest.
With the support of a female-rights lawyer, Nina breaks her silence putting herself at odds the other staff members and the Roman Catholic Church in what promises...
- 2/13/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Celluloid sets down at Efm with biggest slate in years, adding two new Italian productions.
Paris-based sales agent Celluloid Dreams, at the European Film Market (Efm) this week with one of its biggest slates in recent years, has boarded sales on two high-profile Italian titles, Silvio Soldini’s [pictured] Emma and Marco Tullio Giordana’s Nome Di Donna.
Soldini’s Emma stars Adriano Giannini as a womanising creative director at a trendy ad agency who falls under the spell of a beautiful, married and blind osteopath. It is now in post-production. Videa has acquired Italian rights.
Tullio Giordana’s Nome Di Donne stars Cristiana Capotondi as a single mother who works at an old people’s home, where she discovers that the manager is sexually abusing the staff and she sets out to bring him to justice.
Celluloid Dreams president and head of acquisitions Hengameh Panahi acquired the films through her long-time contact, Lionello Cerri at Lumière...
Paris-based sales agent Celluloid Dreams, at the European Film Market (Efm) this week with one of its biggest slates in recent years, has boarded sales on two high-profile Italian titles, Silvio Soldini’s [pictured] Emma and Marco Tullio Giordana’s Nome Di Donna.
Soldini’s Emma stars Adriano Giannini as a womanising creative director at a trendy ad agency who falls under the spell of a beautiful, married and blind osteopath. It is now in post-production. Videa has acquired Italian rights.
Tullio Giordana’s Nome Di Donne stars Cristiana Capotondi as a single mother who works at an old people’s home, where she discovers that the manager is sexually abusing the staff and she sets out to bring him to justice.
Celluloid Dreams president and head of acquisitions Hengameh Panahi acquired the films through her long-time contact, Lionello Cerri at Lumière...
- 2/10/2017
- ScreenDaily
Rai Com boosts slate with Partly Cloudy, Probably Sunny and Latin Lover.
Rai Com is to handle sales on Partly Cloudy, Probably Sunny (Tempo instabile con probabili schiarite), the new film by Marco Pontecorvo.
The comedy stars John Turturro alongside Italian actors Luca Zingaretti, Lillo and Carolina Crescentini. Pontecorvo was recently director of photography on Fading Gigalo, which Turturro wrote, directed and starred.
The film is produced by Panorama Films in collaboration with Rai Cinema and will be distributed in Italy by Good Films.
Pontecorvo, who also wrote the film, described it as “a bittersweet comedy, a sarcastic metaphor for the vices and defects as well as the virtues of Italy today.”
Rai Com has also added Cristina Comencini’s Latin Lover to its slate. Comencini was nominated for a Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar in 2005 with Don’t Tell.
Latin Lover, currently in post-production, stars Italo-French actress Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (“Saint Laurent”), Spanish stars Candela Pena (“All About My Mother...
Rai Com is to handle sales on Partly Cloudy, Probably Sunny (Tempo instabile con probabili schiarite), the new film by Marco Pontecorvo.
The comedy stars John Turturro alongside Italian actors Luca Zingaretti, Lillo and Carolina Crescentini. Pontecorvo was recently director of photography on Fading Gigalo, which Turturro wrote, directed and starred.
The film is produced by Panorama Films in collaboration with Rai Cinema and will be distributed in Italy by Good Films.
Pontecorvo, who also wrote the film, described it as “a bittersweet comedy, a sarcastic metaphor for the vices and defects as well as the virtues of Italy today.”
Rai Com has also added Cristina Comencini’s Latin Lover to its slate. Comencini was nominated for a Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar in 2005 with Don’t Tell.
Latin Lover, currently in post-production, stars Italo-French actress Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (“Saint Laurent”), Spanish stars Candela Pena (“All About My Mother...
- 11/25/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Immediately after her Oscar for In a Better World, Danish director Susanne Bier is set to shoot All You Need is Love, a movie with a lighter theme, set in Italy’s Amalfi coast. The movie, which Bier wrote with Pierce Brosnan in mind, has Brosnan as logical choice for a lead role in it.
Despite the fact Bier took a statuette for her youth-violence drama she was since known for melodrama. Bier has been directed war melodrama Brothers and the broken-family drama Things We Lost in the Fire; her English-language first appearance. The director reportedly said this week that her new flick is a romance with a more optimistic feel.
It’s a tender story with a much lighter atmosphere than my previous works: Enough with conflicts,”
she told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica. An Italian newspaper also revealed “All You Need is Love” would follow a Danish family...
Despite the fact Bier took a statuette for her youth-violence drama she was since known for melodrama. Bier has been directed war melodrama Brothers and the broken-family drama Things We Lost in the Fire; her English-language first appearance. The director reportedly said this week that her new flick is a romance with a more optimistic feel.
It’s a tender story with a much lighter atmosphere than my previous works: Enough with conflicts,”
she told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica. An Italian newspaper also revealed “All You Need is Love” would follow a Danish family...
- 3/6/2011
- by Nikola Mraovic
- Filmofilia
Susanne Bier has picked her follow-up to the Oscar-winning In a Better World. She will shoot comedy All You Need Is Love with a Danish cast on the Amalfi coast in Italy in May, she told Italian newspaper La Repubblica: "It's a tender story with a much lighter atmosphere than my previous works: enough with conflicts." Bier's usual backer, Zentropa, will produce with Italy's Teodora Film and Lionello Cerri's Lumiere as co-producers. Plans are to start shooting on Amalfi coast locations in May, confirmed a Teodora rep to Variety. Casting is under way.
- 3/2/2011
- Thompson on Hollywood
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