A Journey Called Love | |
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Directed by | Michele Placido |
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Cinematography | Luca Bigazzi |
Edited by | Esmeralda Calabria |
Music by | Carlo Crivelli |
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Language | Italian |
Un viaggio chiamato amore (internationally released as A Journey Called Love) is a 2002 Italian romantic drama film directed by Michele Placido.
It tells the tormented relationship between the writer Sibilla Aleramo and the poet Dino Campana. [1]
The film entered the 59th Venice International Film Festival, where Stefano Accorsi was awarded with the Volpi Cup for best actor. [2]
Massimo Troisi was an Italian actor, cabaret performer, screenwriter, and film director. He is best known for his works in the films I'm Starting back from Three (1981) and Il Postino: The Postman (1994), for which he was posthumously nominated for two Oscars. Nicknamed "the comedian of feelings", he is considered one of the most important actors of Italian theater and cinema.
Dino Campana was an Italian visionary poet. His fame rests on his only published book of poetry, the Canti Orfici, as well as his wild and erratic personality, including his ill-fated love affair with Sibilla Aleramo. He is often seen as an Italian example of a poète maudit.
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Giovanna Mezzogiorno is an Italian theatre and film actress.
Stefano Lelio Beniamino Accorsi is an Italian actor.
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Beat Furrer is a Swiss-born Austrian composer and conductor. He has served as professor of composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz since 1991. He was awarded the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize in 2018.
Sibilla Aleramo was an Italian feminist writer and poet best known for her autobiographical depictions of life as a woman in late 19th century Italy.
Cordula "Lina" Poletti was an Italian writer, poet, playwright, and feminist. Often described as beautiful and rebellious, she was prone to wear men's clothing and is considered one of the first women in Italy to openly declare her lesbianism.
The 59th annual Venice International Film Festival was held between 29 August to 8 September 2002.
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Luca Bigazzi is an Italian cinematographer. He has won seven David di Donatello for Best Cinematography awards and received fourteen nominations, making him the highest awarded artist in this category. He is the first Italian cinematographer to be nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award in the Outstanding Cinematography for a Limited Series or Movie category, for the 2016 series The Young Pope by Paolo Sorrentino. He has worked with directors such as Silvio Soldini, Mario Martone, Felice Farina, Gianni Amelio, Francesca Archibugi, Michele Placido, Abbas Kiarostami, and Paolo Sorrentino.
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The Italian is a novel by the Italian writer Sebastiano Vassalli. It was published in 2007 by the publishing house Einaudi. It is dedicated to the publisher Giulio Bollati. The title is "L’Italiano" because it deals with eleven different stories of Italian people. According to WorldCat, the Italian edition is held book is held in 137 libraries.