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SEA PURPLE (VIOLA DI MARE)
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Completed - ITALIAN - Drama - 105 minutes

Previous markets

  • Berlin EFM 2010 (Premiere)
  • Cannes 2010 (Screening)
Full history

Year of production : 2009

Director(s) : Donatella MAIORCA
Writer(s) : Mario CRISTIANI, Donatella DIAMANTI, Donatella MAIORCA
Cast : Valeria SOLARINO, Isabella RAGONESE, Ennio FANTASTICHINI, Giselda VOLODI, Maria Grazia CUCINOTTA

Producer(s) : Maria Grazia CUCINOTTA (Italian Dreams Factory), Giovanna EMIDI (Italian Dreams Factory), Silvia NATILI (Italian Dreams Factory)

Synopsis

Sicily 19th‐century.Angela, 25, loves Sara, willing to face the world with her own homosexuality. Her father, a tyrannical paterfamilias, shuts her up in a cave. Seeing no way out her mother tricks the curate to change Angela’s name and sex on the birth certificate. So, sporting a cap and a cigar, ’Angelo’ marries Sara giving an outward picture‐ perfect family. The story interweaves facts, legend, and poetry, digging into an ancient scandal lost in time and the frontiers of identity.

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Country(ies) : ITALY

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