The Stolen Children

The Stolen Children

Directed by	Gianni Amelio
Produced by	Angelo Rizzoli Jr
Written by	Gianni Amelio Sandro Petraglia Stefano Rulli Giorgia Cecere
Starring	Enrico Lo Verso Valentina Scalici Giuseppe Ieracitano
Music by	Franco Piersanti
Edited by	Simona Paggi
Distributed by	The Samuel Goldwyn Company in USA, 1993
Release dates	April 10, 1992 (ITA)
Running time	114 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

The Stolen Children (Italian: Il ladro di bambini) is a 1992 Italian film directed by Gianni Amelio.

Plot

A policeman bonds with two children as he escorts them to an orphanage.

Cast

Enrico Lo Verso - Antonio
Valentina Scalici - Rosetta
Giuseppe Ieracitano - Luciano
Florence Darel - Martine
Marina Golovine - Nathalie
Fabio Alessandrini - Grignani
Agostino Zumbo - Priest
Vitalba Andrea - Antonio's Sister
Massimo De Lorenzo - Papaleo
Celeste Brancato - Girl at Dinner
Vincenzo Peluso - Carabiniere
Santo Santonocito - Carabiniere
Renato Carpentieri - Chief of Police
Maria Pia Di Giovanni - Mother of Rosetta and Luciano
Lello Serao - Arrested Man

Awards

1992 Cannes Film Festival - Grand Prize of the Jury, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury^[1]
European Film Awards - Best Film
6 David di Donatello - Best Film, Best Director, Best Producer, Best Editing, Best Music, Special David for their child acting (Giuseppe Ieracitano & Valentina Scalici )
2 Nastro d'Argento - Best Director, Best Screenplay
The film was nominated for the prestigious Grand Prix of the Belgian Syndicate of Cinema Critics.

References

↑ "Festival de Cannes: The Stolen Children". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-08-14.

External links

Il Ladro di bambini at the Internet Movie Database

Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix

1967–1989	Accident (1967) I Even Met Happy Gypsies (1967) Ådalen 31 (1969) Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) Johnny Got His Gun (1971) Taking Off (1971) Solaris (1972) The Mother and the Whore (1973) Fantastic Planet (1973) Arabian Nights (1974) The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1975) Cría Cuervos (1976) The Marquise of O (1976) Bye Bye Monkey (1978) The Shout (1978) Siberiade (1979) Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980) Light Years Away (1981) The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982) Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983) Diary for My Children (1984) Birdy (1985) The Sacrifice (1986) Repentance (1987) A World Apart (1988) Cinema Paradiso (1989) Too Beautiful for You (1989)

1990–2009	Tilaï (1990) The Sting of Death (1990) La Belle Noiseuse (1991) The Stolen Children (1992) Faraway, So Close! (1993) To Live (1994) Burnt by the Sun (1994) Ulysses' Gaze (1995) Breaking the Waves (1996) The Sweet Hereafter (1997) Life Is Beautiful (1998) Humanité (1999) Devils on the Doorstep (2000) The Piano Teacher (2001) The Man Without a Past (2002) Uzak (2003) Oldboy (2004) Broken Flowers (2005) Flanders (2006) The Mourning Forest (2007) Gomorrah (2008) A Prophet (2009)

2010–present	Of Gods and Men (2010) Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011) The Kid with a Bike (2011) Reality (2012) Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) The Wonders (2014)

European Film Award for Best Film

A Short Film About Killing (1988)
Landscape in the Mist (1989)
Open Doors (1990)
Riff-Raff (1991)
The Stolen Children (1992)
Close to Eden (1993)
Lamerica (1994)
Land and Freedom (1995)
Breaking the Waves (1996)
The Full Monty (1997)
Life Is Beautiful (1998)
All About My Mother (1999)
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
Amélie (2001)
Talk to Her (2002)
Good Bye, Lenin! (2003)
Head-On (2004)
Hidden (2005)
The Lives of Others (2006)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)
Gomorrah (2008)
The White Ribbon (2009)
The Ghost Writer (2010)
Melancholia (2011)
Amour (2012)
The Great Beauty (2013)
Ida (2014)