24/11/2006

Medusa Film has planned a large-scale release for Anplagghed: the film version of the live theatrical show by highly popular comic trio Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo, directed by Rinaldo Gaspari, will come out on 603 screens nationwide.

Lucky Red is bringing Hans-Christian Schmid’s German film Requiem [+see also:
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interview: Hans-Christian Schmid
interview: Hans-Christian Schmid
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film profile] (starring 2006 Silver Bear Best Actress winner Sandra Huller) to 13 screens. The film is this week’s Cineuropa Focus.

There are also two Cannes titles out this week: Spanish film Pan's Labyrinth [+see also:
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Two documentaries arriving in Italian theatres this week will come out on 20 screens each: Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man, on ecologist Timothy Treadwell, is being distributed by Fandango, while Ripley's Film is releasing Giuseppe Bertolucci’s Pasolini Next to Us ( ), which features footage of the master filmmaker speaking on his work on the set of his last film, Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom. Lastly, Giuseppe Gagliardi’s mockumentary La vera leggenda di Tony Vilar (lit. “The True Legend of Tony Vilar”, on a 1970s singer who became famous in South America, is being distributed by Metacinema.

(Translated from Italian)