Mediterraneo (film)
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| Mediterraneo | |
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 original movie poster |
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| Directed by | Gabriele Salvatores |
| Produced by | Silvio Berlusconi Mario Cecchi Gori Vittorio Cecchi Gori Gianni Minervini |
| Written by | Enzo Monteleone |
| Starring | Diego Abatantuono Claudio Bigagli Giuseppe Cederna Claudio Bisio |
| Music by | Giancarlo Bigazzi Marco Falagiani |
| Cinematography | Italo Petriccione |
| Editing by | Nino Baragli |
| Distributed by | Miramax Films |
| Release date(s) |  September 9, 1991 (premiere at TIFF) 22 March 1992 (NYC only) |
| Running time | 96 min. |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian English Greek Turkish |
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Mediterraneo is an Italian film that won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1991. The film is set during World War II, and regards a group of Italian soldiers who become stranded on a Greek island and are left behind by the war. They each find their own niche on the island and decide that being stranded is not necessarily a bad thing.
The filming took place on the island of Kastellórizo.
[edit] Cast
- Diego Abatantuono as Sgt. Nicola Lo Russo
- Claudio Bigagli as Lt. Raffaele Montini
- Giuseppe Cederna as Antonio Farina
- Claudio Bisio as Corrado Noventa
- Luigi Alberti as Eliseo Strazzabosco
- Ugo Conti as Luciano Colasanti
- Memo Dini as Libero Munaron
- Vasco Mirandola as Felice Munaron
- Vanna Barba as Vassilissa
[edit] External links
| Preceded by Journey of Hope |
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film 1991 |
Succeeded by Indochine |
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