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Fandango and Warner Bros. to produce Giovanni Veronesi’s latest film

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- Filming for L’ultima ruota del carro starring Elio Germano is under way in Rome

Filming for Giovanni Veronesi’s (photo) latest film L'ultima ruota del carro is under way in Rome. The film is being produced by Fandango and Warner Bros. Entertainment Italia. Veronesi’s fifteenth film marks an interruption in the Tuscan director’s usual collaboration with Aurelio De Laurentiis.

L'ultima ruota del carro (literally meaning the wagon’s last wheel) was written by Veronesi himself with Ugo Chiti, Filippo Bologna and Ernesto Fioretti. Its cast is made up of Elio Germano playing Ernesto, the comedy’s main character, Alessandra Mastronardi playing Angela, Ernesto’s life partner, and Ricky Memphis as Giacinto, Ernesto’s best friend. Sergio Rubini, Virginia Raffaele, Alessandro Haber and Ubaldo Pantani will all be starring.

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Veroni’s tale is heart-felt, slow-paced, scathing, bitter, happy and moving, paying homage to Italian comedy at its best.

The story revolves around Ernesto and his tragicomic adventures as a truck driver. Up and down stairs, loading and unloading furniture, his journey represents a journey across Italy in the past few decades. Ernesto goes through it all: from the black and white television era of the 1960s, to the tinted, gloomy 1970s to the rampant 1980s and the Berlusconi 1990s.

With shooting only taking place in Rome, the film’s photography has been taken on by Fabio Cianchetti, editing by Patrizio Marone, staging by Tonino Zera, costumes by Gemma Mascagni, and sound by Remo Ugolinelli. Release is planned for Autumn 2013 and Warner Bros. Pictures will be in charge of distribution.

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(Translated from Italian)

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