The Wedding Director
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Marco Bellocchio
Sergio Castellitto
Donatella Finocchiaro
Sami Frey
Gianni Cavina
Bruno Cariello
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Franco Elica, a dissolute movie director, slides into despair after being asked--to his horror--to make yet another version of Alessandro Manzoni's The Betrothed. Complicating matters is news that a looming sexual-harassment scandal is about to break. Hoping to avoid the scandal at all costs, Franco flees to Sicily where he hides out in a small village. There he meets a host of colorful characters: a man who makes his living shooting souvenir wedding films, a film director who is faking his own death to finally achieve the fame that has eluded him all his life, and the cultured nobleman Prince Ferdinando Gravina di Palagonia. The menacing Prince, a huge fan of Franco's movies, commissions the depraved filmmaker to shoot the wedding of his tempestuous daughter, Bona, with whom Elica quickly falls impulsively, idiotically, dangerously in love and whose wedding he becomes driven to sabotage at all costs.
Director
Marco Bellocchio
Cast
Sergio Castellitto
Donatella Finocchiaro
Sami Frey
Gianni Cavina
Bruno Cariello
Maurizio Donadoni
Simona Nobili
Claudia Zanella
Corinne Castelli
Silvia Ajelli
Aurora Peres
Giacomo Guernieri
Crew
Sergio Ballo
Marco Bellocchio
Marco Bellocchio
Francesca Calvelli
Gaetano Carito
Marco Dentici
Riccardo Giagni
Luigi Lagrasta
Pasquale Mari
Luciano Martino
Sergio Pelone
Massimo Vigliar
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States Summer June 4, 2008
Released in United States on Video December 16, 2008
Released in United States 2006
Shown at London Film Festival (Cinema Europa) October 18-November 2, 2006.
Shown at Vancouver International Film Festival (Cinema of Our Time) September 28-October 13, 2006.
Released in United States Summer June 4, 2008
Released in United States on Video December 16, 2008
Released in United States 2006 (Shown at London Film Festival (Cinema Europa) October 18-November 2, 2006.)
Released in United States 2006 (Shown at Vancouver International Film Festival (Cinema of Our Time) September 28-October 13, 2006.)
