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Nino - Un film su Nino Rota

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Director:	Walter Fasano
Production:	Be Water Film (Mattia Guerra), Sugar Play (Filippo Sugar, Elisabetta Biganzoli), Adler Entertainment (Marco Colombo), I Diavoli, Marco Morabito, Walter Fasano in collaboration with Rai Documentari with the support of MiC-DGCA Fondo per lo sviluppo degli investimenti nel cinema e nell’audiovisivo Apulia Film Fund, Apulia Film Commission, Regione Puglia
Running Time:	115’
Language:	Italian, English, French, Korean
Country:	Italy
Main Cast:	Vince Mendoza, Alexandre Desplat, Caterina D’Amico, Mino Gabriele, Joe Lovano, Park Chan-wook, Michele Marvulli, Rita Pavone
Screenplay:	Walter Fasano
Cinematographer:	Clarissa Cappellani, Camilla Cattabriga, Leonardo Mirabilia
Editor:	Walter Fasano
Music:	Nino Rota
Sound:	Davide Favargiotti, Gianluigi Gallo, Antonio Stella

Narrator:	Sting

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Synopsis

A portrait of a composer whose remarkable career traversed the twentieth century. While celebrated for his unforgettable film scores, Nino Rota was also a highly respected composer of concert music. Adopting a free and associative narrative form, the film explores the personal, artistic and spiritual ties that shaped his life, revealing an artist who dedicated himself entirely to music and the ideals it embodies. A precocious musical talent, Rota studied with Ildebrando Pizzetti, Alfredo Casella and Rosario Scalero. Rota encountered cinema early in his career, going on to compose around 150 film scores for directors including Visconti (The Leopard), Zeffirelli (Romeo and Juliet), and, of course, Federico Fellini, beginning with The White Sheik: La Strada, Nights of Cabiria, La Dolce Vita, 8½, Amarcord and Orchestra Rehearsal. With Coppola’s The Godfather he achieved his greatest international success, and The Godfather Part II earned him the Academy Award for Best Original Score. Photographs and archival materials are reimagined and woven together with interviews.

During his lifetime, Rota’s relationship with music critics was often a difficult one. Today, he is reclaiming his rightful place among the great composers, having left a profound and deeply personal mark on the history of music.

Director’s Statement

Nino Rota’s music is so extraordinary that making a film about it comes down to a simple gesture: giving it space. Warm, reserved and famously absent-minded, yet also profound, uncompromising and deeply self-aware, the Maestro remained an elusive figure at heart. To retrace his life is to tell the story of an artist immersed in music and wholly devoted to it. Through his harmonies, he sought to express the beauty of existence and the importance of an unceasing longing for growth and self-awareness. It is a privilege to receive his message.

PRODUCTION/DISTRIBUTION

PRODUCTION 1:
Be Water Film - Mattia Guerra
Via Merulana 247
00185 Rome, Italy
Tel: +39 06 69267731
E-mail: e.bertozzi@bewatermedia.it
Web: http://bewaterfilm.it
Social Media: @bewaterfilm - Instagram

PRODUCTION 2:
Sugar Play - Filippo Sugar, Elisabetta Biganzoli
Galleria Del Corso 4
20122 Milan, Italy
Tel: +39 351 770 7848
E-mail: h.weerappulige@sugarmusic.com
Web: http://sugarmusic.com/division/sugar-play
Social Media: @sugarplayofficial - Instagram

PRODUCTION 3:
Adler Entertainment SRL - Marco Colombo
Corso Venezia 6
20121 Milan, Italy
Tel: +39 02 66663660
E-mail: info@adler-ent.com
Web: http://www.adler-ent.com
Social Media: @adler_entertainment - Instagram

PRODUCTION 4:
I Diavoli
Via Benaco 15
00199 Rome, Italy
Tel: +39 06 69267731
E-mail: info@bewatermedia.it

OTHER PRODUCTIONS:
Walter Fasano, Marco Morabito

ITALIAN DISTRIBUTION:
Be Water Film - Eddie Bertozzi
Via Merulana 247
00185 Rome, Italy
Tel: +39 06 69267731
E-mail: e.bertozzi@bewatermedia.it
Web: http://bewaterfilm.it
Social Media: @bewaterfilm - Instagram

Adler Entertainment SRL - Marco Colombo
Corso Venezia 6
20121 Milan, Italy
Tel: +39 02 66663660
E-mail: info@adler-ent.com
Web: http://www.adler-ent.com
Social Media: @adler_entertainment – Instagram

WORLD SALES:
Global Constellation - Fabien Westerhoff
Kopernikusstrasse 9
81679 München, Germany
E-mail: sales@globalconstellation.eu
Web: https://globalconstellation.eu
Social media: @global_constellation - Instagram

ITALIAN PRESS OFFICE:
Francesca Polici - G P PR and Marketing Consultancy Ltd.
Tel: +39 3290478786 / +34 666 32 88 14
E-mail: francesca@gargiulopolici.com

PRESS OFFICE:
Emma McCorkell - Team PR
Tel: +44 7947 299950
E-mail: emccorkell@teampr.co.uk

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