Viola di mare
Sea Purple- Director
- Donatella Maiorca
- Country
- Italy
- Year
- 2009
- Genre
- Drama
- Scriptwriters
- Donatella Diamanti, Mario Cristiani, Donatella Maiorca, Pina Mandolfo
- Cast
- Valeria Solarino, Isabella Ragonese, Ennio Fantastichini, Giselda Volodi, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Marco Foschi, Lucrezia Lante Delle Rovere, Corrado Fortuna
- Production
- Italian Dream Factory
Storyline
On a small, imaginary island off 19th-century Sicily, when the 'Thousand' have landed to reunite Italy, Angela, 25, loves Sara and seeks to ride out the scandal over her own homosexuality by disguising herself as a man. Shut up in a cave by her father, a tyrannical paterfamilias, when she refuses an arranged marriage, Angela is saved by a trick her mother cooks up: she convinces the curate to change Angela's name and sex on her birth certificate. That's how Angela turns into Angelo: sporting a cap and a cigar, and a picture-perfect family. An intense examination of the frontiers of identity as well as geography, the story interweaves fact, legend, and poetry and re-evokes an ancient scandal lost in time.
Festivals & Academy awards and others
Rome Film Festival 2009
Competition
Releases
Italy (16 of October 2009)
Call for proposals Distribution Automatic
Year 2009
Call number 03/2009
Media support 2.375,00 €
Distribution territories:
United Kingdom
Distribution:
Medusa Film (Italy)
Cinemien (Netherlands)
PECCADILLO PICTURES LIMITED (United kingdom)
