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BERLINALE 2010 EFM / Italy

Intramovies takes Man Who Will Come to Berlin

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Giorgio Diritti’s The Man Who Will Come [+see also:
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, on the Marzabotto massacre of 1944, is Intramovies’s top title at the European Film Market. Company head Paola Corvino and her team will be at the Italian Pavillion of the Martin-Gropius-Bau, offering buyers the winner of the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award of last year’s Rome International Film Festival (RIFF), currently out in Italian theatres.

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Intramovies’ line-up includes the co-production The Trick in the Sheet by Mexican director Alfonso Arau, based on the Francesco Costa novel and starring Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Anne Parillaud and Primo Reggian. The film is produced by Cucinotta’s Seven Dreams Productions and Spain’s Aquelarre Cine.

Scontro di Civiltà per un Ascensore in Piazza Vittorio, based on the book by Algerian-Italian writer-journalist Amara Lakhous, is directed by Isotta Toso. Intertwining stories on Rome’s natives, immigrants and political refugees, the film is produced by Maura Vespisni and Sandro Silvestri (Emme) with RAI Cinema.

Another film adaptation of a novel (by Giacomo Pilati), in Viola di Mare [+see also:
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Donatella Maiorca directs Valeria Solarino and Isabella Ragonese in a lesbian love story set in 19th century Sicily. It is produced by Cucinotta, Giovanna Emidi, Silvia Natili and Giulio Violati for Italian Dream Factory.

Alessandro di Robilant’s Marpiccolo [+see also:
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also started out as a book, Andrea Cotti’s Stupido. Produced by Marco Donati for Overlook Production with RAI Cinema, the film was also presented at the RFF last October.

Intramovies’ slate further includes Giulia Doesn’t Date at Night [+see also:
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by Giuseppe Piccioni, starring Valeria Golino (Best Actress at the Athens Film Festival) and Valerio Mastandrea, produced by Lionello Cerri for Lumière & Co. with RAI Cinema; Polvere [+see also:
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(Kubla Khan) by Massimiliano D’Epiro and Danilo Proietti; Roberto Faenza’s The Case of Unfaithful Klara [+see also:
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(Jean Vigo Italia and Medusa Film); and Diederik van Rooijen’s Dutch title Bollywood Hero (IDTV Film).

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(Translated from Italian)

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