Roman Polanski to Direct ‘The Palace’ for Italy’s Rai Cinema
“We care about films, that’s our job. We don’t care about personal history,” Rai general director Paolo Del Brocco says
Brian Welk | April 29, 2021 @ 9:55 AM
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Roman Polanski has set his next directorial feature, “The Palace,” which will be produced by Italian film outfit Rai Cinema.
Polanski is a convicted child rapist who has been shunned from Hollywood and is in exile from America. Nevertheless, he continues to work in Europe and won the Silver Bear from the Venice Film Festival in 2019 for his film “An Officer and a Spy.”
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Toni Servillo Set For Casanova s Return by Oscar-Winner Gabriele Salvatores (EXCLUSIVE)
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Italian actor Toni Servillo (“The Great Beauty”) is set to star in “Il ritorno di Casanova,” a drama about what happens to a great lover when he gets older, to be directed by Oscar-winner Gabriele Salvatores (“Mediterraneo”).
Loosely based on Austrian author Arthur Schnitzler‘s novella “Casanova’s Homecoming,” in which the Venetian libertine is having trouble contending with the fact that he’s over 60, “Ritorno di Casanova,” which translates as “Casanova’s Return,” is co-written by Salvatores with “The Great Beauty” screenwriter Umberto Contarello and Sara Mosetti.
Marco Bellocchio Set For Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara Drama That Spielberg Had His Eye On (EXCLUSIVE)
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Italian auteur Marco Bellocchio (“The Traitor”) is set to reconstruct the true-life drama of Edgardo Mortara, a Jewish boy kidnapped and converted to Catholicism in 1858. It’s a story that Steven Spielberg was in advanced stages to bring to the screen a few years ago.
Mortara was a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents’ struggle to free their son became part of a larger political battle that pitted the papacy against forces of democracy and Italian unification. Mortara went on to become a priest in the Augustinian order.