Five Italian films will be in the running for the Golden Lion at the 81st Venice Film Festival, which takes place from August 28 to September 7 and will be packed with Hollywood stars, organizers said on Tuesday. The Italian movies in competition are Gianni Amelio's Battlefield; Maura Delpero's Vermiglio; Iddu by Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza with Toni Servillo and Elio Germano; Luca Guadagnino's Queer starring Daniel Craig; and Giulia Steigerwalt's Diva Futura.
Battlefield - Gianni Amelio
Battlefield (Italian: Campo di battaglia) is a 2024 Italian war drama film directed by Gianni Amelio, written by Amelio and Alberto Taraglio, and starring Alessandro Borghi as a World War I-era doctor in Northern Italy.
"These are the years of the First World War and Dr. Stefano Zorzi spends his days in the Exemption Clinic in a large city of Northern Italy, where he not only takes care of soldiers who arrive from the massacre of the front, but also he fights simulation and self-harm of those who hope to be dispensed, by sending them before the Military Court. Stefano would never have thought of meeting someone capable of deliberately procuring a pathology, as one procures a lifeboat to save himself from greater evil. But now he's tired of that conflict that made him an inspector and, if necessary, a gendarme. In the apartment of a secluded building, Dr. Giulio Farradi works. A restless man, deeply opposed to war, capable to feel a tender and possessive love for the soldiers of his ‘private war’. If Stefano, in fact, does his utmost to heal soldiers and send them back to fight, Giulio makes them ill, or helps them to self-injure seriously enough to be exonerated.
The two doctors, who went to university together and were great friends, they not only (secretly) challenge each other on a professional level, but also on the sentimental one: they are both linked to Anna, a courageous nurse with a strong character. But when the great ‘Spanish’ fever epidemic arrived in 1918, the time for love, politics and science ends up getting confused dangerously...".
Vermiglio - The Mountain Bride - Maura Delpero
Italian director Maura Delpero's "Vermiglio - Mountain Bride" is an intimate epic of miraculous rigor and restraint, set in a remote WWII-era mountain community. The setting for Maura Delpero’s is a sleepy wartime village in the Italian Alps. 1944, Vermiglio, a remote mountain village. The arrival of Pietro, a deserter, into the family of the local teacher, and his love for the teacher's eldest daughter, will change the course of everyone's life.
Iddu by Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza
Iddu (Sicilian Letters) movie by Fabio Grassadonia and Antionia Piazza with Toni Servillo. A time during Cosa Nostra boss Matteo Messina Denaro's three decades as a fugitive from Italian justice, when he was at the peak of his nefarious powers. The film stars Elio Germano as Sicilian Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro and Toni Servillo as Catello, an operative in the Italian secret service. In the early 2000s, the embattled politician Catello seeks to revive his career by helping the Secret Service track down the last known Cosa Nostra boss, Matteo Messina Denaro, whom Catello has known his entire life. The two begin corresponding via letters in a game of cat and mouse.
Diva Futura - Giulia Louise Steigerwalt
Diva Futura is a 2024 film written and directed by Giulia Louise Steigerwalt about the pornographic film studio of the same name starring Pietro Castellitto as studio founder Riccardo Schicchi. In 1980s-1990s Italy, Riccardo Schicchi's agency Diva Futura turns free love into porn, making stars of Ilona Staller, Moana Pozzi and others. Their fame leads to Cicciolina's election and Pozzi's mayoral run.
Queer - Luca Guadagnino
Queer is an 2024 historical romance drama film directed by Luca Guadagnino from a screenplay by Justin Kuritzkes, based on the 1985 novel by William S. Burroughs. Set in 1940s Mexico City, the film follows an outcast American expat (Daniel Craig) who becomes infatuated with a younger man. Set in 1940s Mexico City, it follows Lee who, after fleeing from a drug bust in New Orleans, wanders around the city's clubs and becomes infatuated with drug user Allerton, a discharged American Navy serviceman.
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