Italian Film Festival 2007
The Night Before The Exams The Night Before The Exams
The Night Before The Exams and Saturn In Opposition
The Lark Farm (La Masseria Delle Allodole) (Country: Italy, France, Bulgaria, Spain, UK; Year: 2007; Director: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani; Writer: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani, based on the novel by Antonia Arslan; Stars: Paz Vega, Moritz Bleibtreu, Alessandro Preziosi, Ángela Molina, Arsinée Khanjian, Mohammed Bakri, Tchéky Karyo, Mariano Rigillo, Hristo Shopov, Christo Jivkov, Stefan Danailov)
Massacre of Armenians in Turkey during the First World War.
The Night Before The Exams (Notte Prima Degli Esami, Night Before Finals) (Country: Italy; Year: 2006; Director: Fausto Brizzi; Writer: Fausto Brizzi, Massimiliano Bruno, Marco Martani, Giannandrea Pecorelli; Stars: Nicolas Vaporidis, Giorgio Faletti, Cristiana Capotondi, Sarah Maestri, Chiara Mastalli, Andrea De Rosa, Eros Galbiati, Elena Bouryka, Valeria Fabrizi, Ric, Valentina Idini)
Sparky high school comedy romp in old school fashion.
N (Napoleon And Me) (N (Lo E Napoleone)) (Country: Italy, Spain, France, US; Year: 2006; Director: Paolo Virzì; Writer: Francesco Bruni, Furio Scarpelli, Giacomo Scarpelli, Paolo Virzì, based on the novel by Ernesto Ferrero; Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Elio Germano, Monica Bellucci, Sabrina Impacciatore, Valerio Mastandrea, Francesca Inaudi, Massimo Ceccherini, Omero Antonutti, Margarita Lozano, José Ángel Egido, Achille Brugnini)
When Boney went to Elba...
The Orchestra Of Piazza Vittorio (L'Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio) (Country: Italy; Year: 2006; Director: Agostino Ferrente), Official Site
Documentary charting two men on a mission to found a multi-ethnic orchestra.
Salvatore - Questa E La Vita (Salvatore - That's Life) (Country: Italy; Year: 2006; Director: Gian Paolo Cugno; Writer: Gian Paolo Cugno, Paolo Di Reda; Stars: Alessandro Mallia, Enrico Lo Verso, Galatea Ranzi, Giancarlo Giannini, Gabriele Lavia, Lucia Sardo, Maurizio Nicolosi, Ernesto Mahieux)
A young boy has to bring home the bacon after he is orphaned.
N (Napoleon And Me) N (Napoleon And Me)
N (Napoleon And Me) and Salvatore - Questa E La Vita
Saturn In Opposition (Saturno Contro) (Country: Italy; Year: 2007; Director: Ferzan Ozpetek; Writer: Ferzan Ozpetek, Gianni Romoli; Stars: Pierfrancesco Favino, Margherita Buy, Stefano Accorsi, Luca Argentero, Serra Yilmaz, Ambra Angiolini, Isabella Ferrari, Luigi Diberti, Michelangelo Tommaso, Ennio Fantastichini)
A group of friends in Rome discover than happiness is transient and grief a great healer.
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