Regia di Susanna Nicchiarelli
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La scoperta dell’alba (2013)
(Discovery at dawn)
Directed by: Susanna Nicchiarelli
Cast: Margherita Buy, Susanna Nicchiarelli, Sergio Rubini, Lino Guanciale.
Duration: 95 minutes
Genre: Drama
Language: Italian (English subtitles)
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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ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI CULTURA
Thursday, 13th March 2014 at 6.00pm
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