The Wedding Director
Franco Elica, a dissolute movie director, slides into despair after being asked to his horror to make yet another version of Alessandro Manzoni's The Betrothed. Complicating matters is news that a looming sexual-harassment scandal is about to break.
Hoping to avoid the scandal at all costs, Franco flees to Sicily where he hides out in a small village. There he meets a host of colorful characters: a man who makes his living shooting souvenir wedding films, a film director who is faking his own death to finally achieve the fame that has eluded him all his life, and the cultured nobleman Prince Ferdinando Gravina di Palagonia.
The menacing Prince, a huge fan of Franco’s movies, commissions the depraved filmmaker to shoot the wedding of his tempestuous daughter, Bona, with whom Elica quickly falls impulsively, idiotically, dangerously in love and whose wedding he becomes driven to sabotage at all costs.
Directed by
Marco Bellocchio
Cast
Sergio Castellitto - Franco Elica
Donatella Finocchiaro - Bona di Gravina
Sami Frey - Principe di Gravina
Gianni Cavina - Smamma
Maurizio Donadoni - Micetti
Bruno Cariello - Enzo Baiocco
Simona Nobili - Maddalena Baiocco
Claudia Zanella - Chiara Elica
Corinne Castelli - Fara Domani / Lucia Mondella
Silvia Ajelli - Gioia Rottofreno / Monaca di Monza
Aurora Peres - Sposa
Giacomo Guernieri - Sposo
Carmelo Galati - Luigi
Production Co.
RAI Cinema
Filmalbatross
Dania Film
Surf Film
Filmtel
Produced by
Luigi Lagrasta
Marco Bellocchio
Andre Djaoui
Massimo Vigliar
Luciano Martino
Sergio Pelone
Studio
01 Distribuzione
Writer
Marco Bellocchio
Music
Riccardo Giagni
