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An INDIGO FILM production in collaboration with MEDUSA FILM
An Italy – France – UK – Switzerland co-production
Co-produced with BARBARY FILMS, PATHE, FRANCE 2 CINÉMA, NUMBER 9 FILMS, C-FILMS
MICHAEL CAINE
HARVEY KEITEL
RACHEL WEISZ
PAUL DANO
and JANE FONDA
DIRECTED AND WRITTEN BY ..................................... PAOLO SORRENTINO
PRODUCED BY ................................................................ NICOLA GIULIANO
............................................................................................ FRANCESCA CIMA
............................................................................................ CARLOTTA CALORI
CO-PRODUCED BY ......................................................... FABIO CONVERSI
............................................................................................ JÉRÔME SEYDOUX
............................................................................................ MURIEL SAUZAY
............................................................................................ ROMAIN LE GRAND
............................................................................................ VIVIEN ASLANIAN
............................................................................................ STEPHEN WOOLLEY
............................................................................................ ELIZABETH KARLSEN
............................................................................................ DAVID KOSSE
............................................................................................ ANNE WALSER
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ............................................... VIOLA PRESTIERI
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY ................................... LUCA BIGAZZI
EDITOR ............................................................................. CRISTIANO TRAVAGLIOLI, A.M.C.
MUSIC ............................................................................... DAVID LANG
PRODUCTION DESIGNER ............................................. LUDOVICA FERRARIO
COSTUME DESIGNER .................................................... CARLO POGGIOLI
SOUND .............................................................................. EMANUELE CECERE
SOUND EDITOR .............................................................. SILVIA MORAES
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From Paolo Sorrentino, the internationally renowned writer and director of Italy’s Oscar®winning foreign language film THE GREAT BEAUTY, comes YOUTH. Starring Michael Caine as
Fred and Harvey Keitel as Mick, YOUTH explores the lifelong bond between two friends vacationing
in a luxury Swiss Alps lodge as they ponder retirement. While Fred has no plans to resume his musical
career despite the urging of his loving daughter Lena, Mick is intent on finishing a screenplay in what
may be his last important film for his muse Brenda. Set against a sprawling landscape of unforgettable
sights and intoxicating music, YOUTH asks if our most important and transformative experiences can
come at any time – even late -- in life.
Fox Searchlight Pictures presents, an Indigo Film production in collaboration with Medusa
Film, an Italy – France – UK – Switzerland Co-Production, co-produced with Barbary Films, Pathé,
France 2 Cinéma, Number 9 Films, C-Films, YOUTH. The film is written and directed by Paolo
Sorrentino (IL DIVO, THIS MUST BE THE PLACE) and stars Michael Caine (THE DARK KNIGHT,
ALFIE), Harvey Keitel (THE PIANO, RESERVOIR DOGS), Rachel Weisz (THE CONSTANT
GARDENER, THE DEEP BLUE SEA), Paul Dano (LOVE & MERCY, THERE WILL BE BLOOD)
and Jane Fonda (COMING HOME, “Grace and Frankie”). The film is produced by Nicola Giuliano
(THE GREAT BEAUTY, THIS MUST BE THE PLACE), Francesca Cima (THE GREAT BEAUTY,
THIS MUST BE THE PLACE) and Carlotta Calori (THE GREAT BEAUTY, THIS MUST BE THE
PLACE). Director of photography is Luca Bigazzi (THE GREAT BEAUTY, IL DIVO). Editor is
Cristiano Travaglioli, A.M.C. (THE GREAT BEAUTY, IL DIVO). Production designer is Ludovica
Ferrario (CERTIFIED COPY, THE GREAT BEAUTY). Composer is David Lang (THE
WOODMANS, REQUIEM FOR A DREAM). Costume designer is Carlo Poggioli (DIVERGENT,
COLD MOUNTAIN). Executive producer is Viola Prestieri (THE GREAT BEAUTY, THIS MUST BE
THE PLACE). Co-producers are Fabio Conversi (THE GREAT BEAUTY, IL DIVO), Jérôme Seydoux
(THE GREAT BEAUTY), Muriel Sauzay (THIS MUST BE THE PLACE), Romain Le Grand
(BEAUTY AND THE BEAST), Vivien Aslanian (BEAUTY AND THE BEAST), Stephen Woolley
(CAROL), Elizabeth Karlsen (GREAT EXPECTATIONS), David Kosse (THE THEORY OF
EVERYTHING) and Anne Walser (SUMMER OUTSIDE).
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ABOUT THE PRODUCTION
YOUTH, the latest film from Italian auteur Paolo Sorrentino, is inspired by a story the writerdirector heard about a famous Italian conductor who was invited to play for the Queen of England, but
refused because they could not agree on the repertoire. From this kernel of an idea, the filmmaker began
to construct a complex and poignant narrative about two old friends confronting who they once were
and who they have become.
“A story about how people of a certain age view the prospect of the future slowly began to take
shape,” Sorrentino explains. “The passing of time, how much time we each have left and what we will
do with it fascinates me. The question I asked myself was, how does one look to the future when one is
no longer young? That idea consumed me. Young people may find it difficult to imagine that the
elderly see any prospects for the future. I tried to take the opposite approach and see what expectations
people in their 80s and beyond might still have.”
Sorrentino completed the script for his sixth feature and second English-language film just
before his previous project, THE GREAT BEAUTY, attracted international recognition, including
winning the 2014 Academy Award® for Best Foreign Language Film. The film centers around the
enduring friendship between retired British conductor Fred Ballinger, played by Academy Award
winner Michael Caine, and Hollywood film director Mick Boyle, who is played by Academy Award
nominee Harvey Keitel, as they compare their sometimes conflicting memories of their lives.
With two main characters approaching their eighties, YOUTH may seem like a strange title for
the film, admits producer Nicola Giuliano of Indigo Film, who has been collaborating with Sorrentino
for more than two decades, but it is an apt one. “Paolo is exploring ideas about what the future means to
someone who has lived a long and full life and about what youth is. Is it chronological? Does it have to
do with your relationship with the future? Or is it more connected to your mental and emotional
situation? This film is a progression from THE GREAT BEAUTY.”
“These two men have known each other since they were in their 20s – even Fred’s daughter is
married to Mick’s son,” continues Giuliano. “Fred and Mick have vacationed together at the same
beautiful hotel in Switzerland for many years. They enjoy observing the other guests at the hotel, whose
stories are woven into their relationship. In that beautiful and peaceful setting, they go through
profound experiences that leave them transformed by the end of the film.”
Music plays a key a role not just in the soundtrack of the film but in the creation of Caine’s
character. Building a narrative around an orchestra conductor gave Sorrentino a chance to indulge in a
fantasy of his own. “I liked the idea of stepping into a conductor’s world,” he says. “For me, making a
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film is not just an opportunity to entertain other people. It is the university I never attended, a chance to
acquire knowledge. So you could say it was my ignorance in conducting that made me opt for this
choice.”
Obviously more familiar ground for Sorrentino is Keitel’s character, a film director. “I was
interested in exploring what my future might be,” he says of Mick. “I wondered what my own
relationship with cinema would become as the years pass, if enthusiasm, physical and mental force
wither. I think contemplating our future gives us freedom, and freedom gives us the feeling of youth. In
fact, without the future, how can one be young?”
While Fred no longer performs, refusing even a request from the Queen of England for a
concert, Mick is using his time at the resort to brainstorm ideas for his next film with a group of young
screenwriters. This process was not unlike what Sorrentino and his colleagues did at the beginning of
their careers.
“I wanted to relive those moments,” he says. “There is an extraordinary freedom in being able
to invent without all the inhibitions that come later in life. That was very valuable for me. It’s a kind of
freedom I have only experienced among screenwriters. While most writers work alone, working
collectively on a movie script, one can be free and have fun without hurting anyone. These scenes
brought back some wonderful memories for me of the excitement and enthusiasm some young people
have for motion-picture writing.”
Fred is also accompanied by his daughter, Lena, played by Rachel Weisz, who brings up other
questions about the past for her father. “When Fred looks at Lena, he wonders where the time has
gone,” says Sorrentino. “There is so much he can’t remember, not because of his age, but because that’s
what happens to memories. With so much time on his hands, he tries unsuccessfully to reclaim them,
but it only becomes more painful.”
YOUTH does not always follow a conventional narrative, observes Giuliano. “But then, Paolo
doesn’t write traditional three-act scripts. He’s interested in the relationships between human beings and
trying to capture the human soul on film. That’s not an easy thing to do, but I think with this script and
these actors, he has done a marvelous job. There will be a lot of surprises for the audience. Fred and
Mick are the primary focus of the story, but that’s not all there is to it.”
THE CASTING OF THE PLAYERS
Even before the sensation created by THE GREAT BEAUTY, Sorrentino’s reputation for
creating original, vividly imagined films attracted one of the most impressive casts seen on screen in
recent years. The opportunity to work with the visionary filmmaker brought some of world’s biggest
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names to the table, including Oscar®-winners Michael Caine, Jane Fonda and Rachel Weisz, Oscarnominee Harvey Keitel, and acclaimed actor Paul Dano.
“We wanted an international cast for this film from the beginning,” says the director. “Since
Mick is a Hollywood director, I felt strongly this had to be an English-language film, which made
casting it very exciting for me. Working with English-speaking actors gave us so many interesting
choices that we don’t normally have.”
Starting with Caine as Fred, the filmmakers assembled an enviable roster of acting talent.
“Paolo and I grew up with the films of Michael and Harvey and Jane, so to have them in the film was
astonishing,” says Giuliano. “Rachel gave a great performances in THE CONSTANT GARDNER and
THE DEEP BLUE SEA. She is so talented, smart and beautiful—perfect for Lena. And we had long
admired Paul Dano’s work on THERE WILL BE BLOOD and so many other films. It’s a dream cast.”
Caine’s character Fred Ballinger is an internationally renowned composer and conductor who has
retired not just from public life, but also from the world itself. After decades in the limelight, Fred lives a
solitary existence. His old friend Mick Boyle (Harvey Keitel), a prolific and still ambitious Hollywood
director spending his holiday finalizing the script for his “testament,” a film he believes will surpass
anything he has done before and guarantee his legacy for the next generation.
As Fred, Caine brings a gravitas and ease born of decades as a leading man. But even with his
many years of experience, he professes to have been surprised when he was offered the role. “I had seen
and loved THE GREAT BEAUTY,” says Caine. “I even voted for it for the Academy Award. So when I
got a phone call saying Paolo Sorrentino had a role for me, I said, are you sure? An Italian director has
written a role for an 82-year-old English actor in a film called YOUTH? I think you’ve got the wrong
person.”
But when he read the script, Caine says he began to understand why the director had approached
him. “I once asked John Houston why he never gave me any direction and he said, ‘if you’ve cast it right,
Michael, you don’t have to.’ Paolo cast an 82-year-old Englishman as an 82-year-old Englishman. The
film is not about not growing old. It’s about having grown old. And now where are you? In Fred’s case,
he has more or less given up. As his daughter says, he’s a very talented, very sad old man who’s
wondering how death is going to be. But apart from that, the movie is also very, very funny.”
When an emissary from Queen Elizabeth arrives at the spa to insist that Fred conduct his most
famous composition for her, he flatly declines. “That’s the start of the story,” says Caine. “And it’s part
of the mystery. Why won’t he play this particular piece anymore? The film takes you full circle, without
you seeing what is happening. Obviously I knew what was coming, but still I arrived at the end with a
sense of wonder.”
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Sorrentino, says Caine, has a knack for making even the most unexceptional situation seem
extraordinary. “Paolo is a singular talent,” he adds. “Even after working with him, I still can’t say how he
does it. You look at the script and say how did he come up with that situation or those characters? All the
minor characters—the retired footballer, Miss Universe, the couple who never speak to one another—are
ingenious and original. How did Paolo think of them?”
Caine was asked to conduct a 120-piece orchestra for the film, a prospect he found both
appealing and intimidating. “Actually, it scared the daylights out of me,” he says. “I worked with two
professional conductors to learn the basics, and I based my style on the more flamboyant one. When we
did it, I had a lot of technical help, believe me. But when I finished that scene, the lead violinist came
up to me and said: ‘You were much better than the bloke we had yesterday!’ I think it was all about
looking confident.”
Says Sorrentino, “Conductors hold such mystery for me. What makes a conductor good at his
job is known only to the musicians, to himself and to music critics. They make beautiful gestures with
their hands, but I’m never sure whether it’s to look good or whether it is meaningful. The concertgoer,
and I speak for myself, doesn’t quite know how it happens.”
Harvey Keitel plays a Hollywood veteran with scores of films on his résumé – not a stretch
there. But Mick has come to the spa to complete what he hopes will be his masterpiece. But even with
a team of young screenwriters in tow, he is having difficulty finding the right ending for his magnum
opus.
Keitel signed on based on the script, as well as the director’s work in IL DIVO and THE
GREAT BEAUTY, but did not meet Sorrentino until they both arrived in Switzerland. “I was already a
huge fan,” says Keitel. “His movies are universal. I felt that THE GREAT BEAUTY shouldn’t have
received the Best Foreign Film—for me, it was simply the best film of the year. I knew this was a man
of enormous talent and if you’re an actor, you want to work with people like him.”
Keitel, who has worked with top directors from Quentin Tarantino and Martin Scorsese to Wes
Anderson and Jane Campion, says this film has been one of the great experiences of his professional
life. “Being in Switzerland, having this script and working with an artist like Paolo was very special.
We’re all looking for connections. We’re all looking to grab something that’s meaningful to us and this
project had great significance for me. I hope the people who see the movie feel the same way.”
“I must have done something right in my life to have wound up in a movie with Jane Fonda,”
Keitel continues. “I remember back in New York when I was still just studying acting, I walked by a
theater in Hell’s Kitchen and through an open window, I glimpsed a beautiful lady. It was Jane Fonda. I
think of that as the first time I met Jane. She does magnificent work infused with the desire to reveal
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and to understand herself. And Michael Caine is one of the greats. He’s been an important influence on
actors for as long as I can remember. He’s just a class act, period.”
Accompanying Fred is his daughter Lena (Rachel Weisz), who has spent a lifetime in the
shadow of her distant father. Following him around the world as his assistant, she has made his needs
the focus of her existence—at the expense of her own. As Lena tends to him in Switzerland, her
husband and Mick’s son Julian (Ed Stoppard) arrives to inform her that he is leaving her for his
glamorous pop-star mistress (played by real-life British pop star Paloma Faith).
Rachel Weisz sensitively captures the yearning, grief and pent-up rage that drive Lena. “Fred
stopped composing and conducting when he lost my mother, his wife,” says Weisz. “In many ways,
he’s given up on life. Lena has spent her entire adult life taking care of him. They even sleep in the
same bed. She is a daddy’s girl, and her journey is to stop being a daddy’s girl. He needs to wake up
from this walking coma, rediscover his passion and make a new life.”
And so does Lena, the actress acknowledges. “The breakup of her marriage is the catalyst for
change,” Weisz says. “It’s all about transformation and the opportunity to reinvent one’s self at
whatever age you are. Lena chooses to face something that has always terrified her in the hopes that it
will open new doors. For her, as for a lot of the other characters, the story is about overcoming fear.
When you’re young, you’re not quite so afraid. If you can become intrepid again, then you will regain
your youth.”
Working with Sorrentino was a once-in-a-lifetime experience for Weisz. “A film to me is all
about the direction,” she says. “How any director creates the tone is a mystery, but it is his job to make
the actors work together like an orchestra that is playing one piece of music. If you’d given a different
director a camera and these actors and the text, you wouldn’t have the same movie. This is Paolo’s
point of view—romantic, complicated and poetic.”
Also staying at the hotel is the high-profile American actor Jimmy Tree (Paul Dano). With a
successful movie career and a huge fan base, Jimmy has come to Switzerland to prepare for his next
role. Desperate to be taken seriously as an artist, he is instead haunted by an early film role, a robot
known as Mr. Q in the blockbuster-action franchise that made his career, which he is afraid will define
him forever as an actor.
Dano says he has some understanding of the actor’s dilemma. “Jimmy is tremendously
successful, but that movie still embarrasses him,” says Dano. “He can’t get away from this inane
franchise film. As young as he is, he feels like his career has already been defined by that one role. One
of my first films was a pretty silly teen comedy. I remember being hesitant to take it because I was still
an unknown quantity. People want to define you in terms of the characters you play. But the truth is,
whatever work I have done in the past is the reason I’m here now, so I can’t regret that.”
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In some ways, Jimmy seems more worn and aged than Fred and Mick, says Dano. “He is
asking himself similar questions, even though there’s such a disparity in their experience and their age.
Should he continue on this path? Is he still inspired by what he does? What will that be like for the next
50 years? We’re all artists and we’re looking for something that the other characters in the film can help
us find.”
Sorrentino’s interwoven themes of aging, memory, desire and ambition moved the actor deeply.
“The film constantly surprises me with unexpectedly funny or tragic or joyous moments,” he says.
“Paolo created a tone that’s interesting and exciting. At times, you don’t know whether to laugh or tear
up, and sometimes it’s both simultaneously.”
The experience of making YOUTH surpassed his expectations. “There was wonderful feeling
of ensemble on set, because we all came to make the same kind of film,” he says. “It was amazing to be
able watch Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel approach their work. Michael never plays a false note.
He’s always present and simple, which is hard to do. Harvey is one of the hardest working actors that I
know. And he cracked me up every day. He’s really spontaneous and alive. They made me step up my
game.”
Movie legend Jane Fonda appears as Brenda Morel, a venomous screen queen who arrives in
Switzerland to meet with Mick. In just one short scene, Fonda manages to draw an unforgettable
portrait of a fierce Tinseltown survivor who takes no prisoners and gives no ground.
“I heard about the script from Al Pacino, who told me I had to do it,” says Fonda. “Harvey and
I have a very intense six minutes on the screen. It didn’t matter that it was only one scene. It happens to
be a fabulous scene, but I just wanted to work with Paolo. We took an entire day to shoot it in an
enormous, almost empty ballroom. We did it over and over with Paolo making small adjustments as we
went.
“‘Maestro’ is a very good word for Paolo,” she continues. “Not a lot of directors have his depth
of talent. He’s in complete control of his métier, and it was a privilege to work with a real visionary. I
put Paolo in the same category as Fellini, Visconti and Bertolucci, the great Italian directors. They had a
vision and no one else could have done it their way. That’s what Paolo does as well.”
The actress describes YOUTH as a kind of cinematic Rorschach test for the audience. “All
these different characters play out their stories on a canvas onto which we each project our own
concerns,” she says. “For me, it’s about how age is really relative. If you maintain passion and focus in
your life, you won’t seem old. Michael Caine’s character is chronologically old, but the music is still
coursing through his veins. He sits in a meadow and the cowbells become a symphony. Harvey Keitel’s
character has lost his way. Brenda is may be old but she sure tries to hang on to her youth.”
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Thinking back to the early days of his association with Sorrentino, Giuliano shakes his head in
amazement over the cast they have put together for this film. “I remember so well a time when Paolo
and I were motor-biking together and trying to imagine the future,” he recalls. “It would have been hard
to believe then that one day we would have the chance to work with these kinds of artists.”
MAGIC MOUNTAIN INTERLUDE
YOUTH’s sylvan outdoor settings and luxurious interiors were shot primarily on location at the
Berghotel Schatzalp, a historic hotel in the Swiss Alps near Davos. An Art Nouveau showplace built in
1900, it was originally a luxury sanatorium for tuberculosis patients, and inspired the setting for
Thomas Mann’s classic novel, The Magic Mountain.
“I was looking for an antique hotel and antique hotels are not easy to find,” says Sorrentino.
“Since the hotel has ties to Mann, the owners had preserved it meticulously. It is aesthetically very
beautiful and consistent with the mood we wanted to establish.
Located on a mountain terrace, the Berghotel Schatzalp boasts breathtaking views of the Alps
and is surrounded by a botanical garden encompassing thousands of species of alpine plants. Converted
into a hotel in the 1950s, the building remains virtually unchanged, a spectacularly situated reminder of
a bygone era. In the film, the hotel is a waystation between life and death, where people go for health
and rejuvenation. When the movie company arrived, it was closed for the season, giving it a feeling of
dislocation that Sorrentino and his creative team have used to great effect.
Production designer Ludovica Ferrario was tasked with creating a lush setting where time
seems suspended. “I was honored to be entrusted with this film,” Ferrario says. “Paolo is always very
specific about what he wants. He prefers to work with a designer who can collaborate with him on
every element, no matter how big or small. The script drives the mood. Every choice we made was
essential to creating the right atmosphere, a setting in which with the present, past and future are all
represented.”
The film’s opening shot, a stunning and surreal revolving view of The Retrosettes Sister Band
performing a cover of “You Got the Love,” sets the tone for the rest of the film’s sensual, highly
stylized visuals, created by Sorrentino and his longtime cinematographer, Luca Bigazzi.
“It is always difficult for me to talk about Luca Bigazzi, because we have known each other for
so many years,” says Sorrentino. “When we are together, we talk about all kinds of things except the
film and that seems to work. All I told him was that this is the type of film that is totally centered on the
characters, so the camera must not call attention to itself.”
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Working with Sorrentino can be quite demanding, according Bigazzi, but always in the best
possible way. “He wants to work very fast, but at the same time, he is attentive to every aspect of the
photography. He comes to the set with all the camerawork thought out thoroughly. Of all his films, this
required the most subtle camera movements. There are many long sequences of dialogue, so we wanted
a realistic picture, with no major visual effects.”
In order to allow the flexibility for the lengthy takes Sorrentino envisioned, the pair shot
digitally for the first time. “We used the Red Epic, Zeiss lenses and the first ultra-zoom Canon,” says
Bigazzi. “The HDR technology is very satisfying to use. The cameras are lightweight and not only
allowed us to shoot longer sequences, they made lighting certain scenes less cumbersome.”
Costume designer Carlo Poggioli helped flesh out the script’s flamboyant characters by creating
clues to their personalities in their wardrobe. Retired conductor Fred Ballinger’s wardrobe is made up
of bespoke suits from famous Neapolitan tailor Cesare Attolini and custom knitwear from Lombardia’s
high-end Fioroni, which was then aged. “He is a man who no longer has his clothing made, but he
preserves his elegance by wearing his old suits,” says the designer. “That tells you a great deal about
who he is and who he was.”
Jane Fonda’s over-the-top Hollywood diva was an elaborate project for the designer, executed
with full participation by the actress. “We dressed her in very vibrant colors and lots of flashy jewelry,”
he says. “Jane was amazing. She never removed her high heels and even threw herself on the ground
during the costume fittings to make sure the costume worked for the scene.”
Sorrentino sent Fonda photos of legendary movie goddesses so she would understand the
specific look he had in mind for the character. It is an extreme makeover for the usually elegant and
understated Fonda, and one she says she enjoyed. “He paid so much attention to detail,” she recalls.
“He wanted her to have a beauty mark exactly in a certain place. She has a platinum-blond wig that is
clearly a wig. Brenda is a little bit Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard. I loved seeing all the wrinkles
and lines that were exaggerated because the make-up was so thick. There is something very vulnerable
about an old woman who puts on the mask of make-up and has it is stripped away.”
As befits a story about a world-class musician, the eclectic soundtrack for YOUTH covers a
wide array of genres, including contributions by artists ranging from groundbreaking Russian composer
Igor Stravinsky to new-wave pioneer David Byrne. World-renowned coloratura soprano Sumi Jo,
contemporary singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek and pop princess Paloma Faith all perform in the film,
with Faith contributing a nightmarish music video that represents Lena’s worst fears about her romantic
rival.
The film also features an original score by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang, who
first met Sorrentino when his composition “I Lie” was used in THE GREAT BEAUTY. Although Lang
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had never scored a feature film before, Sorrentino saw him as the natural choice. “He is a fantastic
contemporary classical musician,” the director says. “Here I am making a movie about an orchestra
conductor who is also a contemporary composer. I immediately thought of David.”
All of the music Lang wrote was completed before shooting ever began, an unusual decision,
but one that Sorrentino insisted on. “Paolo wanted the music to be written in advance so it could guide
him through the movie,” the composer says. “He never gave me a script. Instead, he said, ‘in these 14
seconds you must go from timid to happy to triumphant to rejected.’ In fact, I got very little instruction
on what was supposed to happen in the music. Because the film is about a composer, he was genuinely
interested in what a classical composer thought and felt. Paolo is deeply affected by music and he is a
very careful listener, which was a great gift.”
It is no accident that this story focuses on a musician, in Lang’s opinion. “Certainly, I can see
that Paolo could have told a story about anyone who is confronting his youth,” the composer says. “But
I think he chose a musician because music is made in a particular moment, and music played live is
something powerfully of the moment. It is always measuring the distance between where it is and
where it was. When I hear something that I wrote 35 years ago, I’m forced to confront a person whose
life and goals were very different than mine now. I think the movie accurately represents music as a
kind of frozen memory for Fred.”
Fred’s most popular composition, “Simple Song #3,” is also written by Lang. Referred to
throughout the film, it is the piece that the Queen has asked him to conduct—a piece he has vowed
never to perform again. “Fred Ballinger wrote this beautiful music for his wife,” Lang explains. “It’s
clearly a love song, but only Fred is aware of its history. The Queen of England wants to hear it is
because of what it means to her personally, but Fred can only hear what it means to him.”
Not all of the music that Lang contributed to the movie was written for a traditional orchestra.
Some of the most original and unconventional compositions came about as a way to reveal a bit of
Fred’s essence. “For a composer, every sound is available to be sculpted,” explains Lang. “When he
eats a candy and he crumples the wrapper, that’s music. There is a powerful moment where he goes out
into the forest and conducts what we call the ‘wood symphony.’ He hears sounds of the birds, the trees
and the cowbells and that’s an opportunity for him to imagine that he is at the center of the sonic
universe. He has told everyone that he does not make music anymore, but in that scene he allows
himself to play only for himself.”
Lang worked with the BBC Concert Orchestra to record “Simple Song #3” and invited violin
virtuoso Viktoria Mullova to perform a solo. “Fred’s a British conductor and would be used to working
with an orchestra of that quality,” he explains. “Viktoria Mullova is one of the greatest musicians on the
planet and she lives in London as well.”
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Soprano Sumi Jo performs Fred’s masterpiece in a scene shot at the Wimbledon Theater in
London over two days. “There were more than 100 people on set,” the singer remembers. “I’m used to
being on stage, although having all the cameras around made me quite nervous. But Paolo knew exactly
what he wanted. He was with me all the time, checking my make-up, my costume, my hair and even the
way I used my hands. He reminded me a little bit of the famous conductor Maestro Herbert von
Karajan. They both have eagle eyes. Paolo made sure that everything was perfect.”
YOUTH is dedicated to the acclaimed Italian director Francesco Rosi, a friend and role model
for Sorrentino, who died in January of 2015. “Not only was Rosi enormously admired in Italy, he is
considered a benchmark for American directors like Martin Scorsese,” the filmmaker says. “I used him
as inspiration for a close friendship between two men who were getting older. To me, this is a very
optimistic film that should dispel some of our fears about the future. It is not about nostalgia or
melancholy or regretting lost time. It is about how memories accumulate and then they disappear as the
years go by. That can be as true for an 80-year-old as it is for someone who is 40.”
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ABOUT THE CAST
MICHAEL CAINE (Fred Ballinger) is a two-time Academy Award® winning film legend
whose career has spanned six decades. Caine won his first Oscar® for Best Supporting Actor for his
work in Woody Allen’s HANNAH AND HER SISTERS, for which he also received Golden Globe®
and BAFTA Award nominations. He took home his second Best Supporting Actor Oscar® for his role
in Lasse Hallström’s THE CIDER HOUSE RULES, also winning a Screen Actors Guild Award® and
earning Golden Globe and BAFTA Award nominations.
Caine has garnered four Oscar® nominations for Best Actor, the first coming in 1966 for the
title role in ALFIE, for which he also received a Golden Globe® nomination and a New York Film
Critics Award. He earned his second Oscar nod, as well as a Golden Globe® nomination and an
Evening Standard Award, for the part of Milo Tindle in 1972’s SLEUTH, opposite Laurence Olivier.
His role in EDUCATING RITA brought him his third Oscar® nomination, as well as Golden Globe®
and BAFTA Awards. He gained his latest Oscar®, Golden Globe® and BAFTA Award nominations
for his work in 2002’s THE QUIET AMERICAN, for which he also won a London Film Critics Circle
Award.
Caine previously won Golden Globe® and London Film Critics Circle Awards and received a
BAFTA Award nomination, all for Best Supporting Actor, for LITTLE VOICE. He won his latest
London Film Critics Circle Award for his performance in Christopher Nolan’s period drama THE
PRESTIGE. It was his second film for the director following their collaboration on the 2005
hit“BATMAN BEGINS, in which Caine played Bruce Wayne’s butler and confidant, Alfred. In 2008
and 2012, he reprised the role of Alfred in Nolan’s blockbusters THE DARK KNIGHT” and THE
DARK KNIGHT RISES. In 2012, he also completed working with director Sandra Nettleback on MR.
MORGAN’S LAST LOVE, based on the novel La Douceur Assassine by Francoise Dorner, as well as
on Louis Leterrier’s Now You See Me, with Morgan Freeman, Mark Ruffalo, Jesse Eisenberg, and
Woody Harrelson.
Caine was born Maurice Micklewhite in South London in 1933 and developed an interest in
acting at an early age. Upon his discharge from the Queen’s Royal Regiment and Royal Fusiliers in
1953, he began pursuing his career. Taking his stage name from the title “The Caine Mutiny,” he toured
Britain in a variety of plays and began appearing in British films and television shows.
In 1964, Caine landed his first major film role as Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead in ZULU. The
following year, he starred in the hit thriller THE IPCRESS FILE, earning his first of 37 BAFTA Award
nominations for his portrayal of secret agent Harry Palmer. However, it was his Oscar®-nominated
performance in the seminal sixties film ALFIE that catapulted Caine to international stardom. During
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the late 1960s, he went on to star in 11 films, including THE IPCRESS FILE sequels, FUNERAL IN
BERLIN and BILLION DOLLAR BRAIN; GAMBIT, earning a Golden Globe® nomination; HURRY
SUNDOWN; WOMAN TIMES SEVEN; DEADFALL; THE MAGUS; THE ITALIAN JOB; and
BATTLE OF BRITAIN.
Over the next two decades, Caine starred in more than 40 films, including Robert Aldrich’s
TOO LATE THE HERO; X, Y AND ZEE, opposite Elizabeth Taylor; John Huston’s THE MAN WHO
WOULD BE KING; HARRY AND WALTER GO TO NEW YORK; Richard Attenborough’s A
BRIDGE TOO FAR; the Neil Simon comedy CALIFORNIA SUITE; Brian De Palma’s DRESSED TO
KILL; John Huston’s VICTORY; Sidney Lumet’s DEATHTRAP; Stanley Donen’s BLAME IT ON
RIO; John Frankenheimer’s THE HOLCROFT COVENANT; Neil Jordan’s MONA LISA; and DIRTY
ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS, for which he received a Golden Globe® nomination.
Since then, Caine has starred in such films as BLOOD AND WINE, QUILLS, MISS
CONGENIALITY, and AUSTIN POWERS: GOLDMEMBER, Gore Verbinski’s THE WEATHER
MAN, Alfonso Cuaron’s CHILDREN OF MEN, the title role in the independent film HARRY
BROWN, and reuniting with Christopher Nolan in 2010’s smash hit INCEPTION. He lent his voice to
Lord Redbrick in GNOMEO & JULIET and also appears in JOURNEY 2: MYSTERIOUS ISLAND
for New Line/Warner Bros.
Also an author, Caine wrote an autobiography entitled What’s It All About?, as well as Acting
on Film, a book based on a series of lectures he gave on BBC Television. His latest memoir, The
Elephant to Hollywood, was published to much acclaim in 2010 by Henry Holt and Co. in the United
States.
In the 1992 Queen’s Birthday Honors, Caine was awarded the Commander of the Order of the
British Empire (C.B.E.), and eight years later he received a knighthood.
Caine’s latest film work includes the mega hits INTERSTELLAR directed by Christopher
Nolan Matthew Vaughn’s KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE and Breck Eisner’s THE LAST
WITCH HUNTER. He can next be seen in Jon Chu’s NOW YOU SEE ME: THE SECOND ACT out
June 2016. He is currently shooting Zach Braff’s GOING IN STYLE, alongside Morgan Freeman and
Alan Arkin.
To pigeonhole HARVEY KEITEL (Mick Boyle) as a master of edgy degenerates and killers
would have dismissed the actor’s many successes with surly husbands, benign cops and intrepid
detectives. His prolific but slow-to-ignite career began with memorably unlikable supporting roles in
Martin Scorsese character studies TAXI DRIVER and ALICE DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE.
An Academy Award- nominated supporting role in BUGSY heralded a new beginning for Keitel, and
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he became a favorite on the indie film scene of the 1990s through his collaboration with Quentin
Tarantino cult classics RESERVOIR DOGS and PULP FICTION. He also had several successes when
he chose to tap his inner soft side in Jane Campion’s THE PIANO, but by far, he was the go-to guy for
potentially explosive everymen, grizzled police force veterans and G-men in both subtle indies and gunblazing big budget adventures alike.
Keitel was raised in Brooklyn, NY where he joined the Marines at age 16 and served overseas in
the Middle East. When he returned home, he began to pursue an interest in acting, training at the famed
Actors Studio before eventually landing stage roles in summer stock, repertory, and the fringes of off-off
Broadway and Community Theater. He made his off Broadway debut in Sam Shepard’s Up to Thursday
in 1965 and two years later began his association with Scorsese when he answered a newspaper ad placed
by the then-NYU student director. Scorsese cast him in WHO’S THAT KNOCKING AT MY DOOR?,
which evolved from a student short to Scorsese’s well-received feature debut. Keitel went on to make a
strong impression with a breakout role as the director’s alter ego in MEAN STREETS.
Keitel’s long list of additional films include THE DUELLISTS, FINGERS, BLUE COLLAR,
EAGLE'S WING, DEATHWATCH, THE BORDER, WISE GUYS, THE PICK-UP ARTIST, THE
LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST, THE TWO JAKES, THELMA & LOUISE (earned six Academy
Award Nominations), BUGSY, BAD LIEUTENANT (won the Independent Film Award), SMOKE,
CLOCKERS, FROM DUSK TILL DAWN, COP LAND, THREE SEASONS, HOLY SMOKE, U-571,
LITTLE NICKY, THE GREY ZONE, RED DRAGON, NATIONAL TREASURE, BE COOL,
NATIONAL TREASURE: BOOK OF SECRETS, INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, LITTLE FOCKERS,
and Wes Anderson’s MOONRISE KINGDOM and THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL.
Academy Award-winning actress RACHEL WEISZ (Lena), who is known for portraying women of
incredible spirit and intelligence, continues to seek out challenging projects and roles both on screen
and on stage.
Weisz’s numerous upcoming projects from globally acclaimed filmmakers include the Untitled
Donald Crowhurst Project alongside Colin Firth, as well as the Untitled Joshua Marston Project
opposite Michael Shannon, Kathy Bates and Danny Glover, and Derek Cianfrance’s THE LIGHT
BETWEEN THE OCEANS which co-stars Michael Fassbender.
Weisz can next be seen in THE LOBSTER, opposite Colin Farrell which premiered at the 2015
Cannes Film Festival and the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.
Receiving unanimous critical praise opposite Ralph Fiennes, in 2005 Weisz earned a Screen
Actors Guild Award, Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for
her performance in Fernando Meirelles' film adaptation of the best-selling John le Carre novel, THE
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CONSTANT GARDNER. Similarly, in 2012 she received a Golden Globe Best Actress in a Motion
Picture Drama nomination for her highly acclaimed performance in Terence Davies' THE DEEP BLUE
SEA, a film adaptation of Terrence Rattigan's play. Her performance in this independent film also
earned her Best Actress awards from The New York Film Critics Circle, and the Toronto Film Critics
Association.
Weisz’s diverse work includes Alejandro Amenabar's ancient Egyptian epic AGORA, which
premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, Rian Johnson's international con man adventure THE
BROTHERS BLOOM opposite Mark Ruffalo and Adrien Brody, Wong Kar Wei's MY BLUEBERRY
NIGHTS, Peter Jackson's THE LOVELY BONES, Adam Brooks' romantic comedy DEFINITELY
MAYBE, and the indie political drama THE WHISTLEBLOWER, directed by Larysa Kondracki, for
which Weisz received strong praise. Weisz also starred in Jim Sheridan's thriller DREAM HOUSE
opposite Daniel Craig, Francis Lawrence's hit thriller CONSTANTINE, Darren Aronofsky's scifi/romantic fantasy adventure THE FOUNTAIN opposite Hugh Jackman, Gary Fleder's RUNAWAY
JURY, James Foley's CONFIDENCE, Chris and Paul Weitz's ABOUT A BOY, Jean-Jacques Annaud's
ENEMY AT THE GATES, Michael Winterbottom's I WANT YOU, David Leland's THE LAND
GIRLS, Beeban Kidron's SWEPT FROM THE SEA, Bernardo Bertolucci's STEALING BEAUTY and
David Hare's PAGE EIGHT alongside Bill Nighy and Ralph Fiennes for BBC. Weisz has also appeared
in a number of blockbuster films including Stephen Sommers' THE MUMMY and THE MUMMY
RETURNS, Tony Gilroy’s THE BOURNE LEGACY, opposite Jeremy Renner and most recently Sam
Raimi’s OZ: THE GREAT AND POWERFUL opposite James Franco and Michelle Williams.
Recently, she executive produced THE RADIATOR, the directorial debut of Tom Browne depicting an
adult son trying to support his long-suffering mother as she deals with her unraveling yet domineering
husband.
Weisz starred on Broadway in Mike Nichols' Betrayal opposite Daniel Craig and Rafe Spall.
Before its opening, Betrayal shattered weekly box office records in previews at The Barrymore Theater
formerly held by Nichols' last play, Death Of a Salesman. In 2010, Weisz won the Laurence Olivier
Award in the category of "Best Actress" for her performance as Blanche DuBois in the West End
revival of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire. Weisz received critical acclaim for Focus
Features THE SHAPE OF THINGS, which also marked her first venture into producing. She had
previously starred in writer/director Neil LaBute's staging of his original play of the same name, in both
London and New York City. Her performance in Sean Mathias' U.K. staging of Noel Coward's Design
for Living garnered her the London Drama Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Newcomer. She also
starred in the West End production of Suddenly Last Summer, directed by Mathias.
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Weisz began her career as a student at Cambridge University where she formed the Talking
Tongues Theatre Group, which performed numerous experimental pieces and won the prestigious
Guardian Award at the Edinburgh Festival.
Recently, PAUL DANO (Jimmy Tree) wrapped production for the BBC television drama
mini-series, WAR AND PEACE, directed by Tom Harper. The story, based on the novel by Russian
author Leo Tolstoy, chronicles the events surrounding the French invasion of Russia as seen through the
eyes of five Russian families. Dano will portray the character Pierre Bezukhov – a man who, upon
receiving a massive inheritance, is transformed from a bumbling young man into the richest and most
eligible bachelor in the Russian Empire, finding himself in a love triangle between Natasha Rostova
(Lily James) and Andrei Bolkonsky (James Norton). BBC will premiere WAR AND PEACE in January
2016.
Dano also recently wrapped production on the film SWISS ARMY MAN, directed by Dan
Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. Dano stars as Kent alongside Daniel Radcliffe and Mary Elizabeth
Winstead.
This fall, Dano will begin production on the HBO drama CODES OF CONDUCT, directed by
Steve McQueen. Helena Bonham Carter and Rebecca Hall also star.
Earlier this year, Dano starred as Beach Boys songwriter and musician Brian Wilson in the
Roadside Attractions biopic LOVE & MERCY, directed by Bill Pohlad. Dano starred alongside
Elizabeth Banks, John Cusack and Paul Giamatti. LOVE & MERCY chronicles Brian’s life, from his
successes with highly influential orchestral pop albums to his nervous breakdown and subsequent
encounter with controversial therapist Dr. Eugene Landy (Giamatti).
In 2013, Dano appeared in Steve McQueen’s critically acclaimed and Academy Award,
BAFTA, and Golden Globe winning 12 YEARS A SLAVE, alongside Michael Fassbender and
Chiwetel Ejiofor. Dano portrayed the role of the wrathful slave-owner, John Tibeats. Also in 2013,
Dano starred in Warner Brothers’ critically acclaimed thriller PRISONERS, directed by Denis
Villeneuve, and alongside Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal and Terrence Howard.
In 2012, Dano starred in Sony’s action crime sci-fi film, LOOPER, directed by Rian Johnson
and alongside Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Emily Blunt. Dano also starred in and executive
produced Fox Searchlight’s fantasy comedy drama, RUBY SPARKS, directed by Jonathan Dayton and
Valerie Faris and written by Zoe Kazan – also starring Zoe Kazan and Chris Messina.
In the same year, Dano starred as Nick Flynn in Focus Features’ drama, BEING FLYNN,
directed by Paul Weitz and alongside Robert De Niro, Julianne Moore and Olivia Thirlby..
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In 2010, Dano starred in Oscilloscope Picture’s critically acclaimed western drama, MEEK’S
CUTOFF, directed by Kelly Reichardt, which recounts the story of settlers traveling through the
Oregon desert in 1845 who find themselves stranded in harsh conditions.
In 2009, Dano lent his voice for the character Alexander in Warner Brothers’ and Spike Jonze’s
critically acclaimed and Golden Globe nominated WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE.
In 2007, Dano was nominated for a BAFTA in the “Best Supporting Actor” category for his
portrayal of the identical twin brothers Paul and Eli Sunday in in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Academy
Award nominated THERE WILL BE BLOOD, starring Daniel Day-Lewis.
In 2006, Dano won a Critics Choice award for “Best Young Actor” for his portrayal as the
voluntarily mute brother, Dwayne, in Fox Searchlight’s critically acclaimed and Academy Award
nominated LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, and starring
Abigail Breslin, Steve Carell, Greg Kinnear, Alan Arkin and Toni Collette.
Dano starred in IFC Films’ THE BALLAD OF JACK AND ROSE in 2005, directed by
Rebecca Miller and alongside Camilla Belle and Daniel Day-Lewis.
Dano’s first major film was at seventeen, when he portrayed the role of Howie Blitzer in the
crime drama L.I.E., for which he won the Independent Spirit Award for “Best Debut Performance” and
a Directors’ Week Award for “Best Actor.” L.I.E. chronicles the story of a 15 year old Long Island boy
who loses everything and becomes involved in a relationship with an older man.
Other film credits include FOR ELLEN, KNIGHT AND DAY, THE EXTRA MAN, THE
GOOD HEART, GIGANTIC, COWBOYS & ALIENS, TAKING WOODSTOCK, THE GIRL NEXT
DOOR, FAST FOOD NATION, THE KING, THE BALLAD OF JACK AND ROSE and TAKING
LIVES.
In 2007, Dano starred in Ethan Hawke’s off-Broadway directorial debut, Things We Want,
alongside Peter Dinklage, Josh Hamilton and Zoe Kazan.
JANE FONDA (Brenda Morel) was born in New York City in 1937, the daughter of Henry
Fonda and Frances Seymour Fonda. She attended the Emma Willard School in Troy, New York, and
Vassar College. In her early twenties, Fonda studied with renowned acting coach Lee Strasberg and
became a member of the Actors Studio in New York.
Fonda’s work on stage and screen has earned numerous nominations and awards, including
Oscars (Best Actress in 1971 for KLUTE and in 1978 for COMING HOME) and an Emmy for her
performance in “The Dollmaker.” Along with starring roles in dozens of highly acclaimed productions,
Fonda also took on responsibilities as a film and television producer. Her credits include COMING
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HOME, THE CHINA SYNDROME, NINE TO FIVE, ROLLOVER, ON GOLDEN POND, THE
MORNING AFTER and THE DOLLMAKER.
In 2007 Fonda received an Honorary Palme d’Or from the Cannes Film Festival, one of only
three people ever to be granted this honor until then. In 2014, she received American Film Institute’s
highest honor, the Life Achievement Award.
Fonda returned to Broadway in March, 2009 and received a Tony Award nomination for her
role in Moisés Kaufman’s 33 Variations. In February 2011 she reprised her Tony-nominated role in 33
Variations at The Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles.
Fonda revolutionized the fitness industry with the release of Jane Fonda’s Workout in
1982. She followed with the production of 23 home exercise videos, 13 audio recordings, and seven
books – selling 17 million copies all together. The original Jane Fonda’s Workout video remains the
top grossing home video of all time.
In May 2005, Random House published Fonda’s memoirs, My Life So Far, which immediately
went to #1 on The New York Times Best Sellers list. That same spring MONSTER-IN-LAW, her first
film in 15 years, also became the #1 box office hit making Fonda the first person to simultaneously
have a #1 book and #1 movie.
Her book, Prime Time, released in 2011, offers a comprehensive guide to living life to the
fullest, particularly beyond middle age.
2009-2010 was an incredible year for Fonda; she released a set of Fitness DVDs under her new
label Prime Time, aimed at the boomer/senior generation and released by Lionsgate. Additional fitness
Prime Time DVDs were released in 2011.
In 2011, Fonda appeared in ET SI ON VIVAIT TOUS ENSEMBLE, a French comedy (in
French), followed by PEACE, LOVE & MISUNDERSTANDING, co-starring Catherine Keener. She
then appeared as Nancy Reagan in Lee Daniels’s hit THE BUTLER in 2013, and can be seen with
Olivia Wilde and Sam Rockwell in BETTER LIVING THROUGH CHEMISTRY. She most recently
starred in director Shawn Levy’s THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU, with Tina Fey and Jason Bateman,
in 2014.
For three seasons Fonda appeared as media mogul Leona Lansing in an Emmy nominated
performance in Aaron Sorkin’s “The Newsroom,” on HBO. Fonda stars in a new Netflix comedy series
“Grace and Frankie” with Lily Tomlin premiering May 2015.
In addition to her tremendous success as a stage and screen actress, Jane Fonda focuses much
of her time on activism and social change – with much of her work devoted to the program she founded
in 1995, the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential (G-CAPP). Fonda now serves as
Chair Emeritus of this statewide effort to reduce the high rates of adolescent pregnancy and obesity in
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Georgia through community, youth and family development, training of professionals who work with
adolescents, and legislative advocacy.
In March 2014, her new book, Being A Teen: Everything Teen Girls & Boys Should Know
About Relationships, Sex, Love, Health, Identity & More, was released by Random House, and is on
the New York Times Bestseller list.
Fonda has long been known for activism and advocacy on environmental issues, peace, and the
empowerment of women and girls. She is on the board of the Women’s Media Center, which she cofounded in 2004 with Gloria Steinem and Robin Morgan; she sits on the board of V-Day: Until The
Violence Stops, a global effort to stop violence against women and girls begun in 1998 by Eve Ensler,
author of “The Vagina Monologues.”
At the Emory School of Medicine, Fonda established the Jane Fonda Center for Adolescent
Reproductive Health which engages in research, curriculum development and trainings that broaden
understanding of adolescent development and reproductive health and enhance service delivery to
children, youth and families. In addition, her gift has endowed a faculty chair in the Department of
Gynecology and Obstetrics in Emory University School of Medicine named the Marion Howard Chair
in Adolescent Reproductive Health.
In 1994, Fonda was named Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Population Fund.
Fonda is an avid reader, writer, hiker, fly fisherwoman and meditator. She currently resides in
Los Angeles.
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ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS
PAOLO SORRENTINO (Written and Directed By) was born in Naples in 1970.
In 2001, he made his first feature film, L’UOMO IN PIU (ONE MAN UP), featuring Toni Servillo and
Andrea Renzi. The film, selected for the Venice Film Festival, was nominated for three David di
Donatellos, and won a Silver Ribbon for Best New Director as well as two Golden Goblets. In 2004,
Sorrentino completed his second film, LE CONSEQUENZE DELL’AMORE (THE CONSEQUENCES
OF LOVE). Entered into competition at the Cannes International Film Festival, the film won numerous
awards, including five David di Donatellos, four Silver Ribbons, and five Ciak d’Oro. This was
followed by his third film, L’AMOICO DI FAMIGLIA (THE FAMILY FRIEND) which was shown at
the Cannes International Film Festival in addition to numerous other international festivals.
In 2008, with IL DIVO, starring Toni Servillo, Sorrentino competed at the Cannes International
Film Festival for the third time and won the Jury Prize. The film went on to win seven David di
Donatellos, five Ciak d’Oro, five Silver Ribbons, and an Oscar nomination for Best Make-up. In 2010,
Italian Publishing Company Feltrinelli published Sorrentino’s first novel Hanno Tutti Ragione, which
was well received by readers and critics alike, and made the short list for the Strega Prize. In 2011,
Sorrentino released his first English-language film, THIS MUST BE THE PLACE. Starring Sean Penn
and Frances McDormand, the film competed at the 64TH Cannes International Film Festival. It won
numerous awards including six David di Donatellos, three Silver Ribbons, and four Ciak d’Oro. In
2012, Feltrinelli published Sorrentino’s second book, Tony Pagoda E I Suoi Amici.
In 2013, Sorrentino competed at the Cannes International Film Festival for the fifth time with
his film LA GRANDE BELLEZZA (THE GREAT BEAUTY), starring Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone,
and Sabrina Ferilli. The film went on to win many awards, including the Academy Award and Golden
Globe for Best Foreign Language Film and a BAFTA, as well as five important EFA awards, including
Best European Film, Best Director, and Best Actor.
NICOLA GIULIANO (Produced By) was born in Naples in 1966. After a degree in Law he
enrolled at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome and graduated in Film Production.
In 1994, together with Francesca Cima and Carlotta Calori, he founded the Film Production
Company Indigo Film which, at the beginning, dealt with institutional videos, short films and
documentaries.
After their collaboration in producing Paolo Sorrentino’s debut film L’UOMO IN PIÙ (ONE
MAN UP - 2001) they never stopped working together.
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With Indigo Film he produced the following Sorrentino’s works: LE CONSEGUENZE
DELL’AMORE (THE CONSEQUENCES OF LOVE), L’AMICO DI FAMIGLIA (THE FAMILY
FRIEND), IL DIVO and THIS MUST BE THE PLACE starring Sean Penn.
Nicola Giuliano also produced documentaries, such as LA BOCCA DEL LUPO (THE MOUTH OF THE
WOLF) by Pietro Marcello, QUESTA STORIA QUA, ULIDI PICCOLA MIA (ULIDI BABY OF
MINE), LA NAVE DOLCE (THE HUMAN CARGO) by Daniele Vicari and SLOW FOOD STORY by
Stefano Sardo.
Amongst his most recent productions, in 2014 he engaged Indigo Film in producing an Italian
superhero film for young audience: THE INVISIBLE BOY, directed by the Academy Award winning
Gabriele Salvatores as well as BENVENUTO PRESIDENTE! (WELCOME MR PRESIDENT!) by
Riccardo Milani and produced in 2013, which had been nominated as Best Comedy at the European Film
Awards (EFA).
He has produced several debuting filmmakers including: LA KRYPTONITE NELLA BORSA
(KRYPTONITE!) by Ivan Cotroneo, LA DOPPIA ORA (THE DOUBLE HOUR) by Giuseppe
Capotondi, LA RAGAZZA DEL LAGO (THE GIRL BY THE LAKE) by Andrea Molaioli. He still
produced the second film by Andrea Molaioli IL GIOIELLINO (THE JEWEL).
He just presented the debuting film L’ATTESA (THE WAIT) by Piero Messina at Venice
International Film Festival – Official Competition. The main cast is composed by Juliette Binoche and
Lou Delaâge. The film also attended TIFF-Toronto International Film Festival.
Upcoming productions include IO E LEI (ME+HER) by Maria Sole Tognazzi, UN BACIO (A
KISS) by Ivan Cotroneo and TUTTO PER UNA RAGAZZA (SLAM) by Andrea Molaioli.
He has six David di Donatello nominations as Best Producer (won two), five Silver Ribbon
nominations (won one) and in 2014 he produced the Oscar Winning movie LA GRANDE BELLEZZA
(THE GREAT BEAUTY) by Paolo Sorrentino. The film also won Golden Globe 2014 as Best Foreign
Language Film, the BAFTA and four European Film Awards (EFA).
He teaches Film Production at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, at Alma Mater Studiorum
in Bologna and at Cinema and TV Master Degree in Naples.
He is a member of the European Film Academy and in 2014 he has been invited to the A.M.P.A.S.
(Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science).
FRANCESCA CIMA (Produced By) graduated in Cinema History with a thesis on the
Warner Bros’ Musicals in the Thirties. After a short experience as cinema programmer, in 1994 she
graduated in Film Production at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. In the same year, founded
Indigo Film with Nicola Giuliano and Carlotta Calori. At first the company dealt with institutional
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videos, short films and documentaries. In the meantime Francesca Cima worked for the company
Bianca Film, providing publicity.
From 1998 to 2001 she specialized in the postproduction field and worked as a freelancer for
several production companies. In 2001 she produced L’UOMO IN PIÙ (ONE MAN UP) with Indigo
Film, Paolo Sorrentino’s debut film. In the following year she started dedicating exclusively to the
company activity, working at the further Paolo Sorrentino’s movies, LE CONSEGUENZE
DELL’AMORE (THE CONSEQUENCES OF LOVE), L’AMICO DI FAMIGLIA (THE FAMILY
FRIEND) and IL DIVO. In 2003 Indigo Film produced APNEA, debut film for director Roberto Dordit,
LA GUERRA DI MARIO by Antonio Capuano, LA RAGAZZA DEL LAGO (THE GIRL BY THE
LAKE), first film by Andrea Molaioli, and LA DOPPIA ORA (THE DOUBLE HOUR) by Giuseppe
Capotondi.
In 2010 Indigo produced the first feature film by Massimo Coppola, HAI PAURA DEL BUIO
and in 2011 they made IL GIOIELLINO (THE JEWEL), the second film by Andrea Molaioli, THIS
MUST BE THE PLACE by Paolo Sorrentino and LA KRYPTONITE NELLA BORSA
(KRYPTONITE!), Ivan Cotroneo’s directorial debut.
Indigo’s production of documentaries include PESCI COMBATTENTI directed by Andrea
D’Ambrosio and Daniele Di Biasio, DON VITALIANO by Paolo Pisanelli, PINOCCHIO NERO by
Angelo Loy, ODESSA by Leonardo Di Costanzo and Bruno Oliviero, NAPOLI PIAZZA MUNICIPIO
by Bruno Oliviero, IL PASSAGGIO DELLA LINEA and LA BOCCA DEL LUPO by Pietro Marcello,
QUESTA STORIA QUA by Alessandro Paris and Sibylle Righetti, ULIDI PICCOLA MIA (ULIDI
BABY OF MINE) by Mateo Zoni, NAPOLI 24 (various authors) and LA NAVE DOLCE by Daniele
Vicari.
In 2013 Francesca Cima produced the documentary film by Stefano Sardo SLOW FOOD
STORY, scheduled at the Berlin Film Festival, and BENVENUTO PRESIDENTE! (WELCOME MR
PRESIDENT!), a film by Riccardo Milani.
In the same year she produced with Indigo Film LA GRANDE BELLEZZA (THE GREAT BEAUTY)
by Sorrentino, presented at Cannes International Film Festival and winning Oscar and Golden Globe as
Best Foreign Language Film.
Regarding Indigo’s latest productions, Francesca Cima is producer on the movie L’ATTESA
(THE WAIT) by Piero Messina, presented at Venice International Film Festival, starring Juliette Binoche
and Lou De Laâge; IO E LEI (ME + HER) by Maria Sole Tognazzi starring Margherita Buy e Sabrina
Ferilli and UN BACIO (A KISS) by Ivan Cotroneo.
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Since 2014, she has been the President of the Italian Producers within ANICA (National
Association for Cinema Industry). Furthermore she teaches Production at the National School of Cinema
and at LUISS Business School in Rome.
CARLOTTA CALORI (Produced By) is a partner of the Rome based company Indigo Film
Srl. Indigo’s production includes Paolo Sorrentino’s films (THE GREAT BEAUTY – winning four
European Film Awards, Golden Globe and Oscar 2014 as Best Foreign Language Film, THIS MUST BE
THE PLACE starring Sean Penn, IL DIVO, THE CONSEQUENCES OF LOVE AND THE FAMILY
FRIEND, all presented in competition at Cannes International Film Festival), THE INVISIBLE BOY
by Gabriele Salvatores, the web/tv-series “Una Mamma Imperfetta (An Imperfect Mum)” launched in
2013, BENVENUTO PRESIDENTE! (WELCOME MR PRESIDENT!) by Riccardo Milani, nominated
as Best Comedy at the European Film Awards (EFA), Iby Andrea Molaioli and documentaries such as
Iby Stefano Sardo and LA NAVE DOLCE (THE HUMAN CARGO) by Daniele Vicari.
Within the company, amongst other things, Calori takes care of the international contacts include
coproducing partners in France, UK, Switzerland, Romania, Germany, USA and Spain.
Regarding Indigo’s latest productions, Calori is producer on the movie THE WAIT by Piero
Messina, presented at Venice International Film Festival and attending TIFF Toronto International Film
Festival, starring Juliette Binoche and Lou De Laâge; IO E LEI (ME + HER) by Maria Sole Tognazzi
starring Margherita Buy and Sabrina Ferilli and UN BACIO (A KISS) by Ivan Cotroneo.
Indigo Film is currently developing the film project TUTTO PER UNA RAGAZZA (SLAM) by Andrea
Molaioli
Previously she worked for Orbit, a satellite Pay-TV Company, as a producer of documentaries
and cinema programs and as a senior producer of the cinema channels responsible for their launch and
on-air branding. She also worked for Film-Alpha managing film productions and TV series. She
graduated in Economy and Philosophy at Bristol University in the UK, has a master in film and TV
management from ANICA and attended the prestigious Rome based Italian national film school Centro
Sperimentale di Cinematografia (CSC).
She currently holds International Co-productions and European Film Fund courses at Rome Film
School and LUISS Business School in Rome.
FABIO CONVERSI (Co-Produced by) was born in Rome and has worked as a director of
photography in Italy for many years. In 2000, he moved to Paris to found the production company Babe
Films which line up initially focused on Italian cinema. The prosperity of the Italian cinema golden age,
the arrival of a new generation of producers and directors and the curiosity of the French public for
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European cinema allowed him to play an active role in the production of new Italian film projects in
France.
Fabio Conversi has co-produced forty Italian films. The following titles met public and critical
success in many important international festivals: ROMANZO CRIMINALE by Michele Placido, MIO
FRATELLO È FIGLIO UNICO by Daniele Luchetti or IL DIVO by Paolo Sorrentino.
In 2007, Fabio Conversi reached a higher development phase and entirely produced his first
feature film HELLO GOODBYE by Graham Guit, with Fanny Ardant and Gérard Depardieu. A year
later, the success of JE L’AIMAIS (by Zabou Breitman, with Daniel Auteuil and Marie-Josée Croze,
adapted from the novel by Anna Gavalda) gets Fabio Conversi into producing French films.
In 2010 Fabio Conversi founded Bellissima Films, a distribution company that specializes in
Italian indie cinema in France which a significant part of the movies he coproduces would be distributed
through.
Fabio Conversi has fulfilled two desires: Reunite Italian cinema with the Francophone public and
reveal new French talents. Through the years, Fabio Conversi has acquired a significant position as an
independent producer on the French marketplace and is now recognized in Italy as the main contact for
French-Italian co-productions. Among his most famous projects is LA GRANDE BELLEZZA directed
by Paolo Sorrentino, which was in competition at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival and won the Oscar for
the Best Foreign Film in 2014.
In 2014, Fabio Conversi created Barbary Films. He has already produced MARAVIGLIOSO
BOCCACCIO by the Taviani Brothers, LE CONFESSIONI by Roberto Ando and two films in
competition at the 2015 Venice Film Festival: SANGUE DEL MIO SANGUE by Marco Bellocchio and
L’ATTESA by Piero Messina.
Other projects currently being developed at Barbary Films include VAS-Y PLEURE! by Daniel
Auteuil, based on the best seller Piangi Pure by Lidia Rivera, DESHABILLEZ-MOI by Abd Al Malik, a
biopic on the life of Juliette Greco and her idyll with Miles Davis, LE SANG DES SIRÈNES by Fabio
Conversi based on the eponymous novel by Thierry Serfaty, L’ESCORT by Nicolas Benamou, the
remake of NESSUNO MI PUO GIUDICARE by Massimiliano Bruno, and HISTOIRE D’O based on the
eponymous novel by Pauline Réage.
JÉRÔME SEYDOUX (Co-Produced By) is Co-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of
Pathé, a private company he owns.
He began his career in finance in the 1960s and then went on to take over the corporation Pricel
in 1976. It was from this purchase that he formed the conglomerate Chargeurs (transportation, textiles,
media, etc.). In 1986, he became chairman of La Cinq, France’s first private unencrypted television
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channel. This involvement in the media industry was later confirmed by his production and distribution
of films in association with Claude Berri (1987) and his participation, alongside Rupert Murdoch, in the
creation of the satellite platform BSkyB (March 1990) of which he became chairman of the board of
directors between 1998 and 1999.
In 1990, he purchased Pathé Cinema from Giancarlo Parretti. In 2002, the theatrical operations
of Gaumont and Pathé were merged. Pathé’s activities have since developed. Pathé has now become one
of Europe’s leading cinema companies, active in film production (France, United Kingdom), theatrical
distribution (France, United Kingdom, Switzerland), and movie theatre operation through its 66% owned
subsidiary Les Cinémas Gaumont Pathé (France, the Netherlands, Switzerland).
Jérôme Seydoux is also vice-president of the football club Olympique Lyonnais.
After having successfully run the international sales department of StudioCanal, MURIEL
SAUZAY (Co-Produced By) has headed Pathé’s international sales branch since 2007.
Sauzay oversees sales worldwide and international coproductions of Pathé’s film and was
involved in the following films; PHILOMENA by Stephen Frears, MANDELA by Justin Chadwick, the
Academy Award winning film LA GRANDE BELLEZZA by Paolo Sorrentino (credited as producer),
the Academy Award winning film THE IRON LADY by Phyllida Lloyd, the multi-Academy Award
winning film SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE by Danny Boyle, WELCOME TO THE STICKS by Dany
Boon, ASTERIX by Thomas Langmann, OCEANS by Jacques Perrin, THE QUEEN by Stephen
Frears, GIRL WITH THE PEARL EARRING by Peter Webber, ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER by
Pedro Almodovar, etc.
Sauzay is also in charge of Pathé International’s large library which includes many timeless
classics from the likes of Claude Berri, Luis Buñuel, Abel Gance, Alain Delon, Patrice Chéreau, JeanJacques Annaud, Alain Renais, Roman Polanski, etc.
ROMAIN LE GRAND (Co-Produced By) was born in 1972 and graduated from the Hautes
Etudes Commerciales (HEC) business school in 1995. After a brief stint at the Walt Disney Company in
London, he joined Pathé in September 1997 as head of special projects. In December 2001, he was
appointed Director of Production for Pathé (France) in charge of productions and coproductions. As such,
he supervised the production of such films as THE NEST, LE COÛT DE LA VIE, THE CHORUS...
Le Grand was appointed Deputy Managing Director - Production - Pathé (France) in 2007 and
has been in charge of the production of the following films: SAFARI (2 M admissions - 2009),
INCOGNITO (1.4 M admissions - 2009), FRENCH KISS (1 M admissions - 2009), TOUT CE QUI
BRILLE (1.4 M admissions - 2010), L’ITALIEN (1.1 M admissions - 2010).
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He was promoted to Managing Director Production and Distribution for Pathé (France) in 2010.
As French MD, he is in charge of a turnover of more than 150 M € deriving from all businesses: theatrical,
video, VOD, SVOD, international sales, TV, catalog sales etc. He is currently managing a team of over
50 people and supervises the releases and productions of 15 to 20 films per year. Over the last five years,
he was directly involved in the production and distribution on all media of numerous successful films
such as RIEN À DÉCLARER (8.6 M admissions - 2011), SUR LA PISTE DU MARSUPILAMI (5.3 M
admissions - 2012), LE PRÉNOM (3.3 M admissions - 2012), UN BONHEUR N’ARRIVE JAMAIS
SEUL (1.8 M admissions – 2012), ALCESTE À BICYCLETTE (1.2 M admissions - 2013), JAPPELOUP
(1.8 M admissions - 2013), LA CAGE DORÉE (1.2 M admissions - 2013), LA GRANDE BELLEZZA
(Oscar for Best Foreign Picture 2013), RUSH (nominated for Best Film at the Golden Globes 2013),
QUAI D’ORSAY (1 M admissions - 2013), LA BELLE ET LE BÊTE (1.8 M admissions 2014),
SUPERCONDRIAQUE (5.3 M admissions 2014), PAPA OU MAMAN (2.8 M admissions 2015),
POURQUOI J’AI (pas) MANGÉ MON PÈRE (2.4 M admissions 2015), YOUTH (2015), LES
NOUVELLES AVENTURES D’ALADIN (2015)
For Pathé, he was also the hands-on producer of the following films: The Lady and The Duke
(Eric Rhomer – 2001), Contre-Enquête (Franck Mancuso – 2007), Jacquou le Croquant (2007), Faubourg
36 (Christophe Barratier - 2008), LOL (Laughing Out Loud) (Lisa Azuelos – 2009), Oceans (Jacques
Perrin & Jacques Cluzaud – 2010). Together those films garnered numerous César nominations as well
as 4 Oscar nominations.
VIVIEN ASLANIAN (Co-Produced By) film credits include ENTRE AMIS, ON A MARCHÉ
SUR BANGKOK, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, ZULU, THE GREAT BEAUTY, MES HÉROS,
HAPPINESS NEVER COMES ALONE, L’ITALIEN and VIVRE C’EST MIEUX QUE MOURIR.
Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA-winning producer STEPHEN WOOLLEY (CoProduced By) has produced and executive produced nearly sixty films in his storied career, including
some of the most acclaimed and successful films of the past three decades.
In 1984, Woolley’s long-term partnership with director Neil Jordan began with THE
COMPANY OF WOLVES. He went on to produce the multi Oscar-nominated trio MONA LISA,
MICHAEL COLLINS, THE END OF THE AFFAIR as well as INTERVIEW WITH THE
VAMPIRE and the Oscar-winning THE CRYING GAME, for which Woolley was nominated for an
Academy Award® and was awarded Producer of The Year by the Producer’s Guild of America.
Together they also made THE BUTCHER BOY, THE GOOD THIEF, HIGH SPIRITS, IN
DREAMS, THE MIRACLE and BREAKFAST ON PLUTO. During that time, Woolley also
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produced the multi award-winning SCANDAL, ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS, A RAGE IN
HARLEM, SHAG, THE BIGMAN, HARDWARE and BACKBEAT.
As co-founder of Number 9 Films alongside Elizabeth Karlsen, he recently co-produced
CAROL, an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel, adapted by Phyllis Nagy, directed by Todd
Haynes, starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara. CAROL premiered at the 2015 Cannes Film
Festival to critical acclaim and earned Rooney Mara a Best Actress award.
Woolley’s recent projects as a producer with Karlsen include BYZANTIUM, starring Gemma
Arterton and Saoirse Ronan, directed by Neil Jordan; HYENA, by director Gerard Johnson; WHEN
DID YOU LAST SEE YOUR FATHER? starring Jim Broadbent and Colin Firth; HOW TO
LOSE FRIENDS & ALIENATE PEOPLE starring Simon Pegg; I starring Cillian Murphy; Mike
Newell’s GREAT EXPECTATIONS, adapted by David Nicholls and starring Ralph Fiennes and
Helena Bonham Carter; and MADE IN DAGENHAM starring Sally Hawkins and Bob Hoskins,
which was nominated for four BAFTAs, including Best British Film. In 2005, he made his directorial
debut with STONED, the story of Brian Jones, who founded the Rolling Stones.
Forthcoming Number 9 productions include: an adaptation of Peter Ackroyd's DAN LENO
AND THE LIMEHOUSE GOLEM starring Bill Nighy, written by Jane Goldman and directed by
Juan Carlos de Medina, and an adaptation of Lissa Evans’ THEIR FINEST HOUR AND A HALF
starring Gemma Arterton and directed by Lone Scherfig - both of which began production this autumn.
Prior to Number 9, Woolley launched Palace Pictures in partnership with Nik Powell,
acquiring, marketing and distributing some 250 independent and European movies including THE
EVIL DEAD; PARIS, TEXAS; DIVA; MERRY CHRISTMAS MR. LAWRENCE and
BLOOD SIMPLE.
Born in London, Woolley has been a member of the Academy for over twenty years. He was
chairman of the BAFTA Film Committee for ten years.
ELIZABETH KARLSEN (Co-Produced By) began her career in independent film
production in New York, working with directors such as Bill Sherwood, Zbigniew Rybczynski, Jim
Jarmusch and Jean-Baptiste Mondino.
Elizabeth co-founded Number 9 Films with Stephen Woolley in 2002 after a long collaboration
at leading independent UK film distribution and producing company Palace Pictures and at Scala
Productions during which time credits include: Terence Davies' NEON BIBLE starring Gena
Rowlands and selected for Cannes Films Festival competition; Mark Herman's LITTLE VOICE
nominated for 6 Golden Globe® Awards, an Academy Award® Award® and 6 British Academy
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Awards®, including Best Picture; She also produced the international box office success LADIES IN
LAVENDER starring Maggie Smith and Judi Dench and co-produced Neil Jordan's THE CRYING
GAME, nominated for 6 Academy Awards®.
Elizabeth’s producing credits at Number 9 Films began with HBO single drama “Mrs Harris”
starring Annette Bening and Ben Kingsley nominated for 12 Emmys, 3 Golden Globes, 3 Screen Actors
Guild Awards and a Producer's Guild of America Award and for which she received the Women's
Image Network Award. This was closely followed by MADE IN DAGENHAM a social comedy set
during the 1968 Ford strike, directed by Nigel Cole starring Sally Hawkins and Bob Hoskins. This was
nominated for 3 BAFTAs, 4 BIFAs, 2 Evening Standard Awards and a London Critics Circle Award.
Made In Dagenham the Musical opened at the Adelphi in London's West End in October 2014 starring
Gemma Arterton. Soon after was the BAFTA nominated GREAT EXPECTATIONS, written by
David Nicholls, directed by Mike Newell and starring Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter and
Robbie Coltrane as well as BYZANTIUM written by Moira Buffini, directed by Neil Jordan and
starring Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan.
Recent credits include: HYENA directed by Gerard Johnson and starring Peter Fernando. Coproducer on CAROL, an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel, adapted by award winning Mrs.
Harris scribe Phyllis Nagy, directed by Todd Haynes, starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara.
Forthcoming Number 9 productions include: an adaptation of Peter Ackroyd's DAN LENO
AND THE LIMEHOUSE GOLEM starring Bill Nighy, written by Jane Goldman and directed by
Juan Carlos de Medina, and an adaptation of Lissa Evans’ THEIR FINEST HOUR AND A HALF
starring Gemma Arterton and directed by Lone Scherfig - both of which began production this autumn.
An original project from Director Camera D'Or winner Anthony Chen and a new untitled project
directed by Wash Westmoreland (STILL ALICE).
Elizabeth has served on the board of EM Media, The Edinburgh Festival and is currently chair
of Women in Film and TV UK.
DAVID KOSSE (Co-Produced By) joined Channel 4 in November 2014 as Director of its
award-winning feature film arm, Film4.
As Director of Film4, Kosse oversees the development, financing and green-lighting of all
feature films, and support for the distribution of all Film4-backed releases both in the UK and
internationally.
With a remit to produce quality independent films, discover and develop new filmmaking talent and
help build the UK film industry, Kosse leads Film4’s diverse slate which currently includes
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forthcoming titles Justin Kurzel’s MACBETH, Sarah Gavron’s SUFFRAGETTE, Todd Haynes’
CAROL, Paolo Sorrentino’s YOUTH, Louise Osmond’s DARK HORSE, Yorgos Lanthimos’s The
Lobster and Ben Wheatley’s HIGH RISE.
Kosse joined Film4 from Universal Pictures, where he was named President, International in 2009,
reporting into Jeff Shell, Chairman, Universal Filmed Entertainment Group. In this role he led
Universal’s strategy for film product throughout its entire lifecycle across all of NBCUniversal’s
international divisions, and oversaw the company’s international production, marketing and distribution
arm Universal Pictures International (UPI).
Kosse also oversaw Universal Pictures International Productions which co-produced and
acquired English and foreign language films, including TRASH, EVEREST, Alex Garland’s EX
MACHINA (co-produced by Film4), and the BAFTA-winning THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING, for
which he was Executive Producer. UPIP also acquired BOYHOOD, a best film BAFTA-winner for
Best Picture and THE WOLF OF WALL STREET, in addition to SPANISH AFFAIR, VIY,
LABYRINTH OF LIES, BABYSITTING, RIOT CLUB (another Film4 film) and Russel Crowe’s
directorial debut WATER DIVINER.
Kosse created UPI in 2006, a move that established Universal’s standalone marketing and
distribution operations for films released outside of North America. Under his leadership, UPI doubled
the size of its business since 2007.
Universal Pictures reached more than $2bn in international box office for six consecutive years
with a record-breaking 2013, its biggest year in history built on global hits such as LES MISÉRABLES
($293M) and hit franchises sequels FAST & FURIOUS 6 ($550M) and DESPICABLE ME 2 ($540M).
Other international successes under Kosse included the global box office phenomenon MAMMA MIA!
($460 million worldwide gross) and the BOURNE franchise ($1.2B worldwide).
Before joining Universal in 2004, Kosse launched and ran UK-based Momentum Pictures,
which he built into one of Europe’s largest independent film distributors. Kosse has also served in
several senior executive roles at PolyGram, HBO and Ogilvy and Mather Worldwide.
He is a member of the of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and the
British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) where he has headed two BAFTA juries, and is
on the board of the Donmar Warehouse Theatre, Into Films and Creative Industries Council.
Kosse graduated from the University of Oregon in 1984 with a Bachelor of Arts in Business
Administration and Journalism. He is married and he and his wife have three children.
ANNE WALSER (Co-Produced By) was born in 1977 in Paris, France, completed the Swiss
Matura degree in Zurich after extended stays in France, Australia and Greece, and still lives in Zurich.
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Following editorial jobs and production work in TV, journalistic freelance activity, and
production management of various advertising campaigns and corporate films, in late 1999 she began
her permanent position at C-FILMS AG as production manager and excecutive producer. In this
capacity, she oversaw the major European production DIE MANNS – EIN JAHRHUNDERTROMAN
and the feature film which garnered recognition GROUNDING – DIE LETZTEN TAGE DER
SWISSAIR (GROUNDING – THE LAST DAYS OF SWISSAIR).
Since 2005, Anne Walser has worked as a producer and in addition to the financing and the
realization of projects, she also works intensively with general material development and scripts. In
2006, she was made part of the management of C-FILMS AG, where she has also been a partner since
2007.
The produced films have won various prestigious national and international awards, including
three Swiss Film Awards for Best Picture (AZZURO,RASCALS ON THE ROAD, I AM THE
KEEPER) and Best Actor (BIG DEAL, FÜÜR ODER FLAMME, THE FOSTERBOY, I AM THE
KEEPER), various audience awards and honors at international festivals (e.g. Golden Leopard,
international film festival Locarno 2000 for AZZURRO), the German Film Award for the coproduction
DAS WAHRE LEBEN, awards in various categories at the German Television Award (“A Passing
Angel,” “The Manns – Novel of a Century,” “In the Name of God”) as well as the International Emmy
Award for the coproduction “In the Name of God” and “The Manns – Novel of a Century.”
The productions RASCALS ON THE ROAD, GROUNDING – THE LAST DAYS OF THE
SWISSAIR, THE FOSTER BOY, NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON and I AM THE KEEPER count among
the biggest Box-Office Successes in recent Swiss film history.
VIOLA PRESTIERI (Executive Producer) was born in 1975 and she graduated in
production at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome in 1996.
She started working in the neapolitean underground artistic scene and as a line producer in
some of the new Italian wave winning movies such as IO SONO L’AMORE (I AM LOVE) by Luca
Guadagnino. Soon she began her prolific collaboration as executive producer with Paolo Sorrentino.
Movies such as IL DIVO , THIS MUST BE THE PLACE starring Sean Penn, recently LA GRANDE
BELLEZZA (THE GREAT BEAUTY ) which won 2014 Academy Award and Golden Globe as Best
Foreing Language Film and YOUTH , starring Michael Cane and Harvey Keitel, in competition for the
Palme d’Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. Viola Prestieri is now working as executive producer on
the new international project of Paolo Sorrentino: THE YOUNG POPE, starring Jude Law, a
Sky/HBO/Canal Plus co-production.
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In 2008, together with actors Valeria Golino and Riccardo Scamarcio, she founded her
independent production company Buena Onda. Valeria Golino’s first feature film MIELE (HONEY),
an Italian/French co-production was their first international success: it was in competition at the Un
Certain Regard 2013 Cannes Film Festival and it had an important reception worldwide. In the same
year Prestieri represented Italy as Producer of the year in many festivals for the “Producers on the
Move” meetings.
With Buena Onda she also produced different short movies (THE DREAM for Bulgari) and
commercials again with Paolo Sorrentino and lately PER AMOR VOSTRO, directed by Giuseppe M.
Gaudino: it competed at the 72ª Venice Film Festival, where Valeria Golino won the Coppa Volpi as
best actress.
LUCA BIGAZZI (Director of Photography) was born in Milan. Bigazzi started working on
commercials as assistant director but he grew up as cinematographer with Italian director Silvio Soldini.
Their first movie, PAESAGGIO CON FIGURE, was noticed at Locarno Film Festival. Since then he’s
been spliting his carreer between features films and documentaries. He worked with directors such as
Gianni Amelio, Mario Martone, Carlo Mazzacurati, Abbas Kiarostami, Paolo Sorrentino. He won
seven David of Donatello and six Silver Ribbon.
CRISTIANO TRAVAGLIOLI, A.M.C. (Editor) studied cinema at Bologna University and
graduated in film-editing at the Rome National Film School.
Travaglioli won the EFA as Best Editor in 2013 with LA GRANDE BELLEZZA (THE
GREAT BEAUTY) by Paolo Sorrentino. He has a long standing relationship with Sorrentino in fact
The Great Beauty marks their eighth collaboration. Previously Travaglioli edited Sorrentino’s English
feature film THIS MUST BE THE PLACE, the award winning IL DIVO and the short films LA
PARTITA LENTA and LA NOTTE LUNGA. He was an assistant editor on L’AMICO DI FAMIGLIA
(THE FAMILY FRIEND), LE CONSEGUENZE DELL’AMORE (THE CONSEQUENCES OF
LOVE), and Sorrentino’s first feature L’UOMO IN PIÙ (ONE MAN UP).
Travaglioli’s other credits include LA MAFIA UCCIDE SOLO D’ESTATE (The Mafia Kills
Only in the Summer) by Pierfrancesco Diliberto, ANIME NERE by Francesco Munzi, IL VOLTO DI
UN’ALTRA by Pappi Corsicato, STUDIO ILLEGALE by Umberto Riccioni Carteni, HAI PAURA
DEL BUIO by Massimo Coppola, FASCISTI SU MARTE by Corrado Guzzanti as well as the
documentaries THE ONE MAN BEATLES by Cosimo Messeri, ARMANDO E LA POLITICA by
Chiara Malta and I NOSTRI TRENT’ANNI by Giovanna Taviani.
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DAVID LANG (Music) is one of the most highly-esteemed American composers writing
today. His works have been performed around the world and in many of the great concert halls. The
recipient of a wide array of awards, Lang won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in music for The Little Match
Girl Passion, based on a fable by Hans Christian Andersen and Lang's own rewriting of the libretto to
Bach’s St. Matthew’s Passion. The recording of the piece on Harmonia Mundi was awarded a 2010
Grammy Award for Best Small Ensemble Performance. Lang’s tenure as 2013-14 Composer-inResidence at Carnegie Hall saw his mystery sonatas with Augustin Hadelich premiered. His festival,
collected stories, showcased different modes of storytelling in music. This season Lang premieres a
string quartet for the 10thanniversary of Sage Gateshead, a choral piece for the 75thanniversary of
Tanglewood Music Center, a new piece for musikFabrik, a new composition for the Bamberg
Symphony, and just (after song of songs) for Trio Mediaeval and Saltarello. Lang’s compositional
range will be on display when he serves as the 2014-15 Composer-in-Residence at de Doelen in
Rotterdam, and many of the pieces will be receiving their European premieres.
Lang’s music is used regularly in ballet and dance productions around the world by such
choreographers as Twyla Tharp, Susan Marshall, Edouard Lock, and Benjamin Millepied, who is
choreographing a new piece by Lang to be performed by the LA Dance Project at BAM in 2014. Lang's
film work includes the score for Jonathan Parker's (Untitled), the music for the award-winning
documentary THE WOODMANS, and the string arrangements for REQUIEM FOR A DREAM,
performed by the Kronos Quartet. His music is also on the soundtrack for Paolo Sorrentino's Oscarwinning THE GREAT BEAUTY. In addition to his work as a composer, Lang co-founded Bang on a
Can, a prominent new music festival in New York. He is Professor of Composition at the Yale School
of Music.
LUDOVICA FERRARIO (Production Designer) received a University Degree in
Architecture (University of Rome Roma Tre) in Architectural Planning and Design. Ferrario’s
credits include: TELETHON, I HAVE DREAMS, IMPERFECT MOM’S CHRISTMAS, DIARIO
MAMMA IMPERFETTA, LA GRANDE BELLEZZA, LA CITTA’ IDEALE, IL ROSSO e IL BLU,
ISOLE,
IL SEGRETO dell’ACQUA, COPIA CONFORME, LA VITA, L’UOMO CHE VERRA, UNA
QUESTIONE DI CUORE, THE PALERMO SHOOTING, SANGUE PAZZO, LASCIA PERDERE
JOHNNY, IL CAIMANO, GEMELLINE, QUANDO SEI NATO NON PUOI PIU’ NASCONDERTI,
L’AMORE RITROVATO, ARIE, LE CHIAVI DI CASA, DILLO CON PAROLE MIE, LUCE DEI
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MIEI OCCHI, TITUS ANDRONICUS, UN TE’ CON MUSSOLINI and is currently working on THE
YOUNG POPE directed by Paolo Sorrentino.
CARLO POGGIOLI (Costume Designer) is an internationally recognized Costume
Designer, who has designed costumes for films including COLD MOUNTAIN (Co-designed with Ann
Roth) directed by Anthony Minghella, which earned a BAFTA nomination for best costumes; VAN
HELSING (co-designed with Garbriella Pescucci), directed by Steven Sommers, which received a
Saturn Award nomination; and Terry Gilliam’s THE BROTHERS GRIMM (co-designed with Gabriella
Pescucci). Poggioli won the Canadian Academy Award, Prix Genie Award and the JUTRA Award for
best costume design for his work on the Francois Girard directed SILK. He was also nominated for the
Silver Ribbon for LECTURE 21, directed by Alessandro Baricco. Other credits include MIRACLE AT
ST. ANNA directed by Spike Lee, and NINJA ASSASSINS directed by James McTeigue. His
television credits include “Marquise,” directed by Vera Belmont, Nick Willing’s “Jason and the
Argonauts,” and “The Mists of Avalon,” directed by Uli Edel, for which he was nominated for an
Emmy Award for Best Costumes.
Carlo Poggioli studied stage and costume design at the Istituto D'Arte and The Accademia di
Belle Arti in Naples, and then worked in Rome as assistant designer for Gabriella Pescucci, Piero Tosi,
and Maurizio Millenotti on such films as J.J. Annaud’s THE NAME OF THE ROSE, Terry Gilliam’s
THE ADVENTURES OF THE BARON MUNCHAUSEN, Federico Fellini’s THE VOICE OF THE
MOON, Franco Zeffirelli’s SPARROW, and THE AGE OF INNOCENCE, directed by Martin
Scorsese. Poggioli also worked alongside Ann Roth as assistant on the film THE ENGLISH PATIENT,
and as associate designer for THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY, both directed by Anthony Minghella.
Recent credits include Neil Burger’s DIVERGENT, starring Shailene Woodley and Theo
James, and THE ZERO THEOREM, directed by Terry Gilliam, starring Christoph Waltz, Matt Damon
and Tilda Swinton.
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FONDO REGIONALE PER IL CINEMA E L’AUDIOVISIVO
with the support of
REGIONE DEL VENETO
FONDO REGIONALE PER IL CINEMA E L’AUDIOVISIVO
with the support of
BUNDESAMT FÜR KULTUR (EDI) SCHWEIZ
in association with
FILM4
with the participation of
CANAL+ and CINE+
with the participation of
FRANCE TÉLÉVISIONS
in co-production with
RSI - RADIOTELEVISIONE SVIZZERA/SRG SSR and TELECLUB
in collaboration with
MEDIASET PREMIUM
line producer
GENNARO FORMISANO
financial controller
STEFANO D’AVELLA
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first assistant director
DAVIDE BERTONI
casting
LAURA ROSENTHAL C.S.A.
ANNAMARIA SAMBUCCO U.I.D.C.
SHAHEEN BAIG
hair and wig designer
ALDO SIGNORETTI
make-up designer
MAURIZIO SILVI
visual effects supervisor
ANDREW MORLEY
In order of appearance
Swing Band
Escort
Escort's Mother
Mick Boyle
Queen's Emissary
Fred Ballinger
1st Queen's Emissary Assistant
2 nd Queen's Emissary Assistant
Jimmy Tree
Buddhist Monk
South American
South American's Wife
Miss Universe
As Himself
Funny Screenwriter
Bearded Screenwriter
Shy Screenwriter
Screenwriter in Love
Girl Screenwriter
Lena
Masseuse
Eastern Masseur
Doctor
Pharmacist
Silent Wife
Silent Husband
Julian
As Herself
Pale Teenager
Luca Moroder
Mountain Bike Boy
THE RETROSETTES SISTER BAND
GABRIELA BELISARIO
LAURA DE MARCHI
HARVEY KEITEL
ALEX MACQUEEN
MICHAEL CAINE
IAN KEIR ATTARD
ADAM JACKSON-SMITH
PAUL DANO
DORJI WANGCHUK
ROLY SERRANO
LOREDANA CANNATA
MADALINA GHENEA
MARK KOZELEK
NATE DERN
ALEX BECKETT
MARK GESSNER
TOM LIPINSKI
CHLOE PIRRIE
RACHEL WEISZ
LUNA MIJOVIC
VINCENT WOLTERBEEK
WOLFGANG MICHAEL
CORNELIA MARXER
HEIDI MARIA GLÖSSNER
HELMUT FÖRNBACHER
ED STOPPARD
PALOMA FAITH
EMILIA JONES
ROBERT SEETHALER
ALESSANDRO SORIANO
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Singer
Young Violinist
Fire-eater
Alphorn-Group
Hotel Manager
1st Attendant
2nd Attendant
Brenda Morel
Mime
Stewardess
Spy girl
Girl in suit
Cigarette Girl
Sci-fi Girl
Cowgirl
Bikini Girl
Ditsy Girl
Countess
Puritan Woman
Horror Movie Girl
Diva
Pretty Woman
Ballet Dancer
50's Housewife
Cleopatra
Nun
Black Panther
Police Woman
Girl Soldier
Eve
Pirate Girl
Breakfast at Tiffany's Girl
Diner Waitress
Punk Girl
Business Woman
Fencer Girl
Medieval Princess
Nurse
Hostess
Parachutist
Melanie
Violinist
As herself
MARIA LETIZIA GORGA
LEO ARTIN
ATTILIO ZAMPIERI
ALPHORNGRUPPE FLIMS "MOBBING GROUP"
ALDO RALLI
ALEXANDER SEIBT
KASPAR WEISS
JANE FONDA
SARAH AMITRANO
PORTIA REINERS
POPPY CORBY-TUECH
LEONI STÄUBLI
ALICE BAUER
ANABEL KUTAY
PAULINA JÜRGENS
BEATRICE WALKER
VERONIKA DASH
REBECCA CALDER
EUGENIA CARUSO
ELIZABETH KINNEAR
JOSIE TAYLOR
MELINDA BOKOR
JASMIN BARBARA MAIRHOFER
CÉLINE PERUZZO
BLETA JAHAJ
LYDIA RATTEI
ASHLEY BRYANT
BEATRICE CURNEW
TATIANA LUTER
VALENTINA VUJOVIC
JULIA DANUSER
SVENJA HÄSSIG
LOLA TOBELEM
DOMINIQUE LEIDNER
ANNA MARIE CSEH
DANIELA BOLLIGER
ALEKSANDRA LAZAREVIC
FELICITAS HEYERICK
CAROLINA CARLSSON
PASCAL FLEURY
SONIA GESSNER
VIKTORIA MULLOVA
SUMI JO
Publicity
DANIELA STAFFA
FEDERICA CERAOLO
International PR
LE PUBLIC SYSTÈME CINÉMA
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Production Coordinator Indigo Film
LARA LUCCHETTA
Script Supervisor
SAMANTHA NATALUCCI
Production Manager
Unit Manager
Production Coordinator
Assistant Production Coordinator
Key Production Assistant
PAs
GIUSEPPE DI GANGI
RAFFAELLO VIGNOLI
DANIELA MORAMARCO
REBECCA BOOTH
MAURIZIO PORRO
NICOLA SCAMARCIO
GIULIA ODOARDI
LORENZO ROSSI ESPAGNET
SIMONE OLIVIERI
ANTONIO BASSO
Assistant to Mr. Caine
Assistants to Mr. Keitel
NINIAN GREEN
JOELLE BLEIKER
KEAGAN PHILLIP KARNES
SUSAN TALBOT
Assistant to Mrs. Weisz
Casting Assistant
MANUELA DE SANTIS
Casting Associates
JODI ANGSTREICH C.S.A.
MARIBETH FOX C.S.A.
KIMBERLY OSTROY
2nd Assistants director
GIORGIO SERVILLO
ANNA HARRISON
BALADINE ARDANT
ARDALAN NABAVINEJAD
NICOLA ZAPPAROLI
CECILIA MINUTILLO TURTUR
LORENZO SIGNORETTI
2nd 2nd Assistants director
Intern
Interpreter
TIJANA MAMULA
Screenplay translated by
Additional Translations
VIRGINIA JEWISS
MARTIN MAGUIRE
Extras coordinator
Extras Casting Turin
Extras Casting Milan
ALESSANDRA TROISI
BARBARA BRACONI
DARIO STUCCHI
DARIA D’ANTONIO
ARIEL SALATI
PAOLO CAFIERO
DARIO PAOLINI
ROLANDAS JONELIUKSTIS
ALBERTO VIAVATTENE
LUAN AMELIO
B Camera Operator
C Camera Operator/Steadycam
A Camera Focus Puller
Assistant B Camera
Assistant C Camera
Camera Loader
Video Assist
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Data Manager
SALVATORE BOGNANNI
Stills Photographer
GIANNI FIORITO
Post production coordinators
FILIPPO PICHI
PAOLO CENTORE
Assistant editors
LORENZO CAMPERA
FRANCESCO DI STEFANO
MARTINA ZAMOLO
Music Coordinator
VALERIA DI GRAZIANO
Boom operator
2nd Boom operator
FRANCESCO SABEZ
ALBERTO PADOAN
Dialogue Editor
Sound Effects Company
Sound Effects Editor
Foley Artist
Field Recordist
DARIO CALVARI A.I.T.S.
INHOUSE SRL
MIRKO PERRI
MAURO EUSEPI
GABRIELE FASANO
Set Decorator
Assistant Production Designer
Digital Drawing 3D
Assistant Set decorator
2nd Assistant Set decorator
Property Master
Assistant Prop Master
Leadman
Leadman Assistant
Leadman Davos
Painter Davos
Fine Art Painter
GIULIA BUSNENGO
ANGELO PANZIRONI
LORENZO CARTA
CRISTINA VITTORIA MARAZZI
FRANCESCA ESPOSITO
MASSIMO AVOLIO
FABIO GALVAGNO
STEFANO CARBONARO
ALESSANDRO DE ANGELIS
COSIMO GIANNUZZI
SANDRO BETTIN
STEFANO BERNABEI
Costume Supervisor
1st Costume Designer Assistant
Costume Designer Assistants
SERENA FIUMI
LUCA CANFORA
SALVATORE SALZANO
ELENA DEL GUERRA
GIANNI CASALNUOVO
MAURIZIO VITIELLO
SIMONA FALANGA
ROSALIA GUZZO
SERAFINO PELLEGRINO
BARBARA ADDUCCI
VANESSA CRANE
ANNA ORAZI
SASKIA IRRGANG
MONICA IACUZZO
ANDREA CATALANO
Costume Assistants
Costume Coordinator
Key costumer
Seamstresses
Illustrator
Costume P.A.
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Key make-up Artist
Make-up Artist
Additional Make-up Artists
MATTEO SILVI
ROSSELLA GREGORIO
LAURA TONELLO
PASQUALE VALENTINI
NOVELLA BORGHI
MARCO PERNA
GIULIANO MARIANO
GAETANO PANICO
MASSIMO ALLINORO
MICHELE VIGLIOTTA
MARCELLE GENOVESE
CLAUDIA BIANCHI
MASSIMO BADIALI
ANTONIO ESPOSITO
PEGGY ANSTETT
Key Hair Stylist
Hair Stylist
Additional Hair Stylists
Wigmaker
Gaffer
Electricians
ALESSANDRO SAULINI
FABIO POLICASTRO
DANIEL RIZZONI
CARMELO GUTTADAURO LABLASCA
Key Grip
Best Boy
Grips
PATRIZIO MARRA
CRISTIANO BIAGIOLI
CESARE PASCARELLA
MASSIMO SPINA
DANILO MARCELLI
Generator Operator
Drivers
MARCO FRANCESCON
CARLO NEVOLA
DANILO DI RUZZA
STEFANO CIAMMETTI
ALESSANDRO LO FOCO
ANIELLO GUARNIERI
PIERO LISI
Stunt coordinator
Stuntman
LUBOMIR MISAK
BRATISLAV MARTINAK
Special effects
FABIO TRAVERSARI
ANDREA LUCIANI
MASSIMILIANO BIANCHI
MASSIMO CIARAGLIA
EPK
SPECIAL TREATS PRODUCTIONS - JAMIE
NEWTON
Accountant for AEQUOR
Film Accountant
Cashier
Accountant on set
Payroll
ANNA TRAMONTANO
MASSIMILIANO TRAMONTANO
ROSSELLA ATERRANO
SARA CALVANICO
DANIELA LEPORE
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Cashier Assistant
CIRO ATERRANO
Indigo Film
LAURA BRANCHINI
CHIARA SFREGOLA
ELISABETTA PIERETTO
GIUSTINO FINIZIO
MARICA GUNGUI
BARBARA BRACONI
LORENZO GULLOTTA
FILIPPO BITTERLIN
Business and legal coordinator
ILARIA AVANZI
Production Legal Counsel
STUDIO LEGALE PONTI-DE SANCTIS &
PARTNERS
Collection Account Management by
FREEWAY CAM B.V.
FRENCH TEAM
Business Affairs
JULIEN MABIN
Marketing and Technical Manager
ORIANA BUTTACAVOLI
Assistants
LAETITIA ANTONIETTI
LUCILE GESSAIN
Vice Managing Director - Business Affairs
Legal Affairs
PATHÉ
OLIVIER COTTET-PUINEL
CHARLOTTE LAURENDEAU
LUCILE BRUN
SWISS CREW
MARION SCHRAMM
ROLAND STEBLER
AMINTA ISEPPI
PASCAL GLATZ
PETRA WILD
MARTIN JOSS
MAURO VILLAGRAN
Assistant Director
GIORGIA DE COPPI
Costume Stand-by
GIULIA FRATINI
NINA MODEL
Financial Controller
CLAUDIA SUREMANN
Assistant to Producer
JELENA VUJOVIC
Extras coordinators
MARYSOL FERNÁNDEZ
AURELIA MARINE STÖCKLI
CHRISTIAN CASPER
Art Director
Production Manager
Assistant Production Manager
Production Assistant
Location Manager
Assistants Location Manager
Extras Casting Helpers
ANGELA MALINA WEBER
CHRISTIAN MASSLER
DEBORA GIANNONE
FRIEDRICH THEODOR WERNER
JACQUELINE JENNY
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NOËMI MANSER
ANOUK MANSER
FELICITAS DAGOSTIN
COSIMA FREI
RHEA PLANGG
ELIAS DELLER
DOMINIK SUPPIGER
NATALIE SGIER
NADIA SIMONE
HELENE TRINZ
CHRIS STRASSLER
ANGELA WEBER
Costumers
SARA CANDRIAN
DANIELA VRTISKAVO
SELINE FUCHS
Additional Make-up and Hair Stylist
Department
CORIN SIMMEN
CORINA WEIBEL
Prop Dresser
Additional Art Department
JULIANA SCHNOZ
TAMAS DALLOS
AMADEO MARCOS CARNERO
GIANNI RUSCHETTI
ENNIO RUSCHETTI
ROBIN DISCH
LEONARDO CIOCI
Emilia Jones's tutors on set
CAROL BARGER
SANDRA HALDNER
Runners
MATTHIAS ADAM
LUKAS STEINER
JANN-ANDREA KNUPFER
RALF AMACHER
CLA LIETHA
JEANNINE JANS
RAHEL WERNER
HANNA RIINA JANTUNEN
MIRCO TSCHARNER
ANDREAS KÜNG
SVENJA ULMANN
MICHÈLE STUYTS
BRUNO SAVOLDELLI
ROMAN KNORR
CARLO SALUZ
MARTA MONTONATI
MATTHIAS BIENZ
JELISAVETA KIRSCHKE
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VENICE CREW
Unit production manager
Unit managers
Production coordinators
Set P.A.s
Assistant to Mr. Caine
Location Manager
Accountant
Runner
Prep Property Master
Prep 2nd Assistant Property Master
Electricians
Grips
NICOLA ROSADA
MATTEO GOTTARDIS
ALVISE FACHINETTI
ELISABETTA ROSADA
ANNA OFFELLI
ELEONORA FURLAN
NICOLA GOMIERO
GABRIELE ZORTEA
CECILIA IRENA MASSAGGIA
GIORGIA MIS
ELISA FRASINETTI
NOVELLA MARTINOLI
MARCO MORESSA
MICHELANGELO BARBIERI
ANDREA BRIGENTI
PAOLO SARTORI
ANGELO RUSSO
ANTONIO VIOLA
MARCO ALSETTA
ROME CREW
Location Manager
Productions Assistants
Prep Property Master
Prep 2nd Assistant Property Master
Costume P.A.
Stunt girls
CARLA ALTIERI
DOMENICO DE FEUDIS
GIUSEPPE MELE
ANTONIO PISANELLO
STEFANO PICCIARELLI
MANUEL ANTONINI
ANTONIO DE PETRILLO
VALENTINA BORDIN
EMANUELA SIRAGUSA
TAMARA SMORDONI
TAMARA TASSI
LONDON UNIT
Line Producer
Associate Producer
Production Manager
Assistant to Producer
Production Coordinator
Assistant Production Coordinator
Legal Advisor for Number 9 Films
Production Accountant
Location Manager
Unit Manager
2nd Assistant Director
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PAUL SARONY
JOANNA LAURIE
GABBY LE RASLE
KATIE JACKSON
HELEN TURNER
BEN DAWES
KATE WILSON
TARN HARPER
CHRIS BUNYAN
MARK GORMAN
MICHELLE MC DERMOTT
3rd Assistant Director
Set PAs
C Camera operator
C Camera 1st Assistants
C Camera 2nd Assistants
Camera Trainee
Stills Photographer
Sound Assistant
Art Director
Property Master
Assistant Property Master
Swing Gang
Costume Supervisor
Seamstress
Costume stand-by
Costume Assistant
Make-up Artists
Make-up Artist for Ms. Sumi Jo
Hair Stylists
Electricians
Rigger
Grips
Casting Associate
Casting Assistants
Transport Captain
Health and Safety Advisor
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ALEX CURRIE-CLARK
STUART LEARMONTH
ED RIPLEY
JEANETTE SUTTON
ATHENA STABRAKIS
ED SHAW
AL BEAHAN
ALEX BALDWIN
DANIEL KENDALL
GRACE MC INNES
CHRIS COLLINS
CIARAN KAVANAGH
SARAH ROLLASON
CATHARINE BROWN
HOWARD MILLS
ANDREA MICHELON
NATIE DAVIS
NICOLA DOVE
DICKIE EARLL
DANIEL NEWTON
PETER DIBDEN
FILIPPO MARIA
MALLY MALLINSON
ROBIN RICHARDSON
NOEL GODFREY
KATHRYN LEES
HEATHER LEAT
KIM WITCHER
MARK HOLMES
KIM FOSTER
POLLY EARNSHAW
CHARLIE MILEHAM
NURIA M’BOMIO
BELINDA HODSON
NINA IGBINO
KYUNG MIN LEE
RYO MURAKAWA
SHAMIRAH SAIRALLY
MADLEN MIERZWIAK
CAT JOHNSTONE
STEVE LAVERINGTON
OLIVER SMITHSON
GRAHAM BAKER
ADRIAN MC CARTHY
SIMON WARD
LAYLA MERRICK-WOLF
ANNA MCAULEY
AISHA WALTERS
STEVE SEXTON
MICK HURRELL
Unit Medic
Masseur
RAY BROWN
LYNN RUSHTON
For Film4
Business Affairs Executive
Production Finance Manager
Head of Editorial
Head of Commercial & Brand Strategy
Camera Equipment
Grip & Lighting Equipment
Lamps and Bulbs
Transport
Insurance
E&O
Special Effects
Catering
Set Construction
Wigs
Special make-up effects
Costume Houses
Shipments and customs operations
Labor Legal Counsel
Climbing Advisors
Post Production Facility
Digital lab Manager
Digital Coordinator
Digital Workflow Supervisor
Digital Colorist
Re-recording Mixer
2nd Re-recording Mixer
Digital Conforming
Digital Artist
Key Manager
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DIMITRA TSINGOU
GERARDINE O’FLYNN
ROSE GARNETT
SUE BRUCE-SMITH
D-VISION ITALIA
LUXOR
REC
C.S. CINEMATOGRAFICA SERVICE
ASSITALIA – STUDIO DONATI
HCC International Insurance Company
GHOST SFX
JERICO RINALDI – CIELO E TERRA
CATERING
B.T.N. Srl
FOOTPRINT SCENERY (LONDON)
RP WIGS
EMANUELE DE LUCA
LA BOTTEGA DI ALICE
IL COSTUME
SARTORIA CINE TEATRALE NORI –
BRACCIANO ROMA
JEWEL HOUSE
TIRELLI
POMPEI
LOW COSTUME
JORDI
ALBERTO FERRI
PAOLO CARTA
VALERIO TEDESCO
ROBERTO PODIO
LUCA DIMPFLMEIER
LOGO MARGUTTA DIGITAL
ANDREA TERILLI
ALESSANDRO POZZI
VLADIMIR VASILIJEVIC
ANDREA ORSINI
ALESSANDRO CHECCACCI
PAOLO SEGAT
LEONARDO GALEASSI
MARCO RUGGIERI
ALFREDO LONGO
Customer Service
CRISTIANA DI FELICE
Dolby consultant
MASSIMO PUCCIO
AVID
Visual Effects
Visual Effects Executive Producer
Visual Effects Co-Supervisor
Visual Effects Consultants
Compositing Artists
Head of CG
CG Artists
DMP Artist
Rotoscope Artists
Match Move Artist
Visual Effects Editorial
Visual Effects Line Producer
Visual Effects Coordinator
Visual Artist
TONYS S.r.l.
PEERLESS
DREW JONES
MARC HUTCHINGS
KENT HOUSTON
ALDO GAGLIARDI
PAOLO D'ARCO
MATT FOSTER
ELYSIA GREENING
DANIT KLIBANSKY
PAUL ROUND
SOKRATIS SYNITOS
ALEXANDROS THEODOSIOU
KAREN WAND
ROBERT LOUDIL
ROGER ROSA
TIM OLLIVE
ADAM SEELEY
CHARLES DARBY
MARTIN BODY
JAROSLAW ANCUTA
GABRIÉL LOPEZ
ROB O'DEA
SIMON GRETTON
ROBERT VASSIE
CHRIS WILSON
LUIGI MARCHIONE
Paolo Sorrentino would like to thank
Stefania Cella, Giorgio Armani
Mr Michael Caine's costume is designed by Cesare Attolini
Mr Harvey Keitel's costume is by Brioni
Mrs Rachel Weisz's costume is by Giorgio Armani
Mrs. Rachel Weisz and Mrs. Jane Fonda's jewels are by Bvlgari
The film was made in compliance with the current regulations with the contribution of:
ALITALIA S.p.a. + logo ALITALIA
BVLGARI + logo BVLGARI
MASERATI (SWITZERLAND) LTD + logo MASERATI
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NESTLÉ ITALIANA S.p.a. + logo PERUGINA
Advisors for Tax Credit :
Cinefinance - Andrea Zoso
Camelot - Paola Mazzaglia, Francesco Maria Brambilla
For the costume design thanks to:
Albano Shoes, Armani, Aspesi, Attolini, Ballantyne Cashmere, Gemelli da polso Cristiano
Barbarulo, Fgf Industry Spa per Blauer USA e C.P. Company, Brioni, Borsalino G. & F.llo
S.p.a, Car Shoe, Church's, CMP Fratelli Campagnolo, Costume National, Diadora,
Dolce&Gabbana, Dolomite, Sandro Ferrone, Fioroni Cashmere, Gallo, Angela Caputi Giuggiù,
Gore Bike Wear®, Gucci, Kappa®, K-Way®, Lamberto Losani Cashmere, La Perla, La
Sportiva, Lotto, Luxottica, Marzi Firenze Hats, Missoni, Moncler, Mulberry, Parah
www.parah.com, Prada Shoes, Premiata Shoes, Camiceria Prestieri 1935 Napoli, P Tow,
Lorenzo Riva & Company, Salomon, Tod’s, Think Pink, Versace, Vilebrequin, Wilson,
Zimmerli.
For the set design thanks to:
Adidas, Alprose, Apple Inc., Armani, Blackberry, Bose, Conway Stewart, Colibrì, Corpi
Illuminanti Viabizzuno LOGO VIABIZZUNO, Dedon, Divani&Divani by Natuzzi, Favero
Health Projects Spa-Montebelluna (TV), Fizan, Fontana Arte, Flag Lugano, Flos apparecchi
d’illuminazione, GH Lazzarini, Habys, Kartell, Kinect Xbox Microsoft, Laboratoires La Prairie,
Ligne St Barth, Lindt, L’Occitaine en Provence, Maisons du Monde, Maloja Palace e Amedeo
Clavarino, Mavic, Meet, Mulberry, Osprey Europe, Pauline Varoquaux Communication
Manager, Porzellanmanufaktur Reichenbach Gmbh-Germany, Quirumed S.L, Ravizzoni
Valige, Rimowa, Salomon, Suunto, Scott, Villeroy and Boch, Wilson.
The production would also like to thank:
Regione Veneto - Veneto Film Commission, Hotel Waldhaus Flims, Hotel Schatzalp Davos,
Mountain Hotels, St. Georg Apotheke, Central Plaza Tourist Anstalt, Davos Klosters Bergbahnen
AG, Rhätische Bahn AG, Germeinde Flims, Kleiner Landrat Davos, Graubünden Ferien, Fiat
Italia spa, Davos Destinations Organisation, Adidas Azteca, Bort, L’Oréal, Miss Universe L.P.,
Victorinox, (c) Guardian News & Media, The New York Times, Playboy, Hello, Hola, Windmer,
The Berlin Radio Choir, Pius App, Lucio Attinà, Alessandro Bigoni, Anna Elisabetta Conti,
Martial Corneville, Adrian Dill, Yvonne Dunser, Fabio Farinaro, Gion Fravi, Daniel Füglister ,
Hannes Ingold, Max Jemmi, Nuoth Lietha, Mark Linder, Cornelia Marxer, Marion Minarik,
Danny Perkins, Frédéric Petignat, Tessa Ross, Alessia Roth, Gieri Spescha, Giorgio Toso, Adrian
Wootton, Mellissa Hughes, Todd Reynolds, Brian Petwch, Michael McCurdy, Simon Halsey,
Hans Rehberg, Paula Wilcox, Mervyn Cooper, Patricia Ford.
The production would like to thank all the extras:
as HOTEL GUESTS
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Ibrahim Monem Abdel, Sajid Abdelmajid, Marie Alexis, Julie Atenda, Federica Balliano,
Elisangela Barbosa Da Silva, Alexander Bolshakov, Elisa Bühler , Vitalie Calatur, Roberto
Campora, Natalia Caroppo, Ferdinando Carusi, Daniela Caseri, Giuliano Castiglioni, Anton
Casutt, Cheryl Chapman, Carlo Chiesa, Jolanda Cornut, Euplio De Falco, Stefania De
Franceschi, Henri De Riedtmatten, Raniero Della Peruta, Erica Disler, Marco Dollinger, Irina
Faif, Marysol Fernandez, Sabina Frei, Erna Freiburghaus, Mario Fulciniti, Muhamed Gandura,
Viviane Laure Gardien, Barbara Gaudenzi, Margrit Grätzer, Aicha Hanzaz, Ernesto
Hollenweger, Ren Jinhua, Hossein Narges Karbalaei, Roger Keller, Roger Kolly, Carlo Lege,
Cinthia Longo, Mazouz M'barek, Aziza Maachi, Maria Elena Maccagnano, Aaron Tetteh
Maccarthy, Adriano Maggi, Valentina Manduchi, Antonio Mannino, Sandro Marani, Redeo
Marocchi, Sara May, Kurt Mayer, Melissa Mcclaren, Jürgen Mölk, Katharina Mortley, Lidey
Yazmin Moya Infante, Seraina Murk, Darya Nevzorova, Olena Nevzorova, Siegi Nussbaum,
Jessica Nyangi, Junior Nyangi, Barbara Parisi, Silvia Pellegrini, Kurt Plüss, Heidi Ragettli, Jean
Rezzonico, Hanspeter Riesen, Monika Rusconi, Tommaso Sacconi, Mauro Sansoni, Eugene
Sawyerr, Abbas Sayed, Antonio Scarpulla, Laurin Schaffner, Robin Scherer, Peter Schwarz,
Ursula Sybille Schwer-Rode, Susi Senti, Barbara Sigrist, Irene Simonelli, Suzana Stojkovic,
Julian Strickler, Rita Sverzellati, Marika Szönye, Alexander Taiganidis, Simon Tanno, An Luu
Teli, Sonam Chodrön Tenzintsang, Jeremia Thang Chung, Prometta Thatsaneeya, Sara
Villagran, Jevgenia Vinokurova, Bruni Wagner, Daniel Waldmeier, Claudia Maria Walser, Erik
Thaddeus Walters, Dorji Wangchuk, Frieda Wattenhofer, Ghabrial Hany Whaba, Silvana Zabel,
Edith Zimmermann, Franziska Zuppiger
as HOTEL STAFF
Nicole Angehrn, Alessandra Baroni, Manuel Baumgartner, Heinz Bernath, Manuela Bislin,
Monique Boll, Leo Böni, Carla Bucher, Rico Büttner, Natalia Casanova, Stefan Casanova, Omer
Causevic, Stephanie Cekon, Nadine Dahinden, Michael De Man, Andy Denk, Anna Di Lavello,
Ivan Di Marco, Diana Diaz, Sabrina D'Urso, Michael Engler, Roberta Ferrari, Elisa Fraccari,
Corina Gantenbein, Olivia Lina Gasche, Michael Husarik, Sandro Jemmi, Urs Kälin, Kai
Kallinowski, Donathea Karszewski, Daniel Kauer, Alena Keller, Nadia Simone Knöpfel,
Michael Korm, Marina Kuc, Corinna Laube, Alexa Le, Roger Leisinger, Linda Lenart, Peter
Lienert, Anna Carmela Lippolis, Ivana Martinovic, Peter Mastik, Elöd Mata, Christian Mathis,
Bernhard Müller, Oliver Müller, Eva Nidecker, Valdrin Nikai, Claudia Paccagnan, Claudia
Pearce, Nevena Petrovic, Sebastien Pruvost, Mike Ram, Sylvan Rey, Tabea Schefer, Corsin
Schnoz, Tamara Schütz, Charisma Siegrist, Sandra Maz Simon, Ronny Springer, Thomas
Städeli, Andrin Steuri, Tabea Stricker, Piroska Szönye, Marianne Van Der Kooi, Aliena
Wagner, Michela Wetzel, Tania Winzenried, Vincent Wolterbeek, Dominic Wüthrich, Sven
Ytteborg, Marcel Zahnd
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ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK by DAVID LANG
Copyright © 2015 by Red Poppy Music (ASCAP)
SIMPLE SONG #3
Lyric and music by David Lang
WOOD SYMPHONY
Composed by David Lang
Soprano
Violino Solo
Performed by
Orchestra Conductor
SUMI JO
VIKTORIA MULLOVA
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA LONDON (logo)
TERRY DAVIES
Orchestra Recording at
ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS LONDON (logo)
Recording Assistants
LEWIS JONES
JOHN BARRETT
Engineer NY
LAWSON WHITE
Mix Studio
Score and Mix Engineer
Recording and Mix Assistant
Orchestra Contractor
DIGITAL RECORDS STUDIOS ROMA (logo)
GOFFREDO GIBELLINI
GIANLUCA PORELLI
ANGELO GIOVAGNOLI
Coach Conductors for Mr. Caine
TERRY DAVIES
DIMITRI SCARLATO
NICK INGMAN
RICK WENTWORTH
LONDON METROPOLITAN ORCHESTRA
Orchestra Miming
YOU GOT THE LOVE
(A. Stephens / A. Harris / D. Rush)
Performed by The Retrosettes Sister Band
© 1997 Tri She Kieta Publishers / Light And
Sound Music Inc / Beracah Publishing Co /
Truelove Music
Licensed by Warner Chappell Music Italiana
S.r.l.
℗ 2015 Indigo Film s.r.l.
ONWARD
(C. Squire)
Performed by Mark Kozelek
© 1978 Topographic Music Ltd.
Licensed by Warner Bros. Music Italy S.r.l.
Courtesy of Caldo Verde
By Arrangement with Bank Robber Music
THIRD AND SENECA
(Mark Kozelek)
Performed by Sun Kil Moon
Courtesy of Caldo Verde
PRELUDES BOOK 1 – DES PAS SUR LA NEIGE
TRIST ET LENT
(Claude Debussy)
Piano Gianluca Cascioli
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Published by House of Hassle
By Arrangement with Bank Robber Music
℗2006 Universal Music Italia Srl
Courtesy of Universal Music Italia Srl
CAVATINA ‘FIGLIA TI SCUOTI’
(Saverio Mercadante)
From Virginia Act I
Soprano Susan Patterson
London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted
by Maurizio Benini
© Opera Rara
REALITY
Music Vladimir Cosma
Lyrics Jeff Jordan
Performed by The Retrosettes Sister Band
© 1980 Larghetto Music
℗ 2015 Indigo Film s.r.l.
BERCEUSE
(Igor Stravinky)
from "L'Oiseau de feu - The Firebird"
BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by
Terry Davies
with kind permission of SCHOTT MUSIC,
Mainz
sub-publisher for Italy Sugarmusic S.p.A.
℗ 2015 Indigo Film s.r.l.
SHE WOLF(Falling to Pieces)
(Furler – Braide – Tuinfort - Guetta)
Performed by David Guetta feat. Sia
© 2012 EMI Music Publishing Italia S.r.l.
SM Publishing (Italy) Srl – DIPIU’ srl
© Piano Songs/Talpa Music BV
Published in Italy by
BMG Rights Management (Italy) srl
℗ 2012 What A Music Ltd license exclusive
EMI Music France
Courtesy of Warner Music Italia Srl
JUST (After song of songs)
(David Lang ASCAP)
Performed by Trio Mediaeval, Garth Knox,
Agnes Vesterman and Sylvain Lemetre
Released by Louth Contemporary Music
Society
Published by G. Schirmer, Inc. (ASCAP)
on behalf of Red Poppy Music (ASCAP)
A MA MANIÈRE
(Diane Juster – Jean Claude Jouhaud – Sylvain Lebel)
Performed by Maria Letizia Gorga, Stefano De Meo,
Marco Colonna, Laura Pierazzuoli
Just Her Music - Editions Musicales L.M.S Ltee –
Editions Atalante SARL – SODRAC
℗ 2015 Indigo Film s.r.l.
CAN’T RELY ON YOU
(W. Pharrell)
Performed by Paloma Faith
© EMI Music Publishing Italia S.r.l.
℗ 2014 Sony Music Entertainment UK
Limited
NECKBRACE
(E. Mast / M. Stroud)
Performed by Ratatat
© Domino Publishing Co. Ltd. / Big Slippa
Publishing
Published in Italy by
Universal Music Publishing Ricordi Srl
℗ 2010 XL Recordings Ltd.
Taken from the album 'LP4 " XLCD 465
Licensed courtesy of XL Recordings Ltd
By arrangement with Beggars Group Media Limited
THE BREEZE/MY BABY CRIES
(K. Bloom Bronski)
Performed by Bill Callahan
© Domino Publishing Co. Ltd.
AROSA
(Robert Oesch)
Performed by Alphorngruppe Flims
"Mobbing Group"
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Published in Italy by
Universal Music Publishing Ricordi Srl
Recording ©2009 Bill Callahan under
license to Chapter Music
From "Loving Takes This Course - A Tribute
to the Songs of Kath Bloom"
© Robert Oesch
℗ 2015 Indigo Film s.r.l.
CEILING GAZING
(Mark Kozelek / Jimmy La Valle)
Performed by Mark Kozelek
Courtesy of Caldo Verde
Published by House of Hassle
By Arrangement with Bank Robber Music
STORM
(Tellier-Craig / Amar / Pezzente / Girt / Trudeau/
Bryant / Cawdron / Norsola / Efrim)
Performed by Godspeed You! Black Emperor
© Rough Trade Publishing Ltd.
Appears Courtesy of Kranky Ltd
Published in Italy by
Universal Music Publishing Ricordi Srl
DIRTY HAIR
(David Byrne)
Performed by David Byrne
Published by Moldy Fig Music (BMI)
Courtesy of David Byrne
Original Soundtrack distributed by
LOGO WARNER MUSIC ITALY
This film has been produced thanks to the Italian Tax Credit
according to the Law n.244, December 24th, 2007
Distribution France
PATHÉ
International Sales
PATHÉ INTERNATIONAL
Muriel Sauzay
Mayalen de Croisoeuil & Agathe Théodore
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INDIGO FILM, BARBARY FILMS, PATHÉ PRODUCTION, FRANCE 2 CINÉMA, NUMBER 9
FILMS, C -FILMS, FILM4
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