AZZURRO
synopsis
75-year-old Giuseppe De Metrio has spent 30 years in Geneva, as foreign worker for the Broyer company. Upon retirement, he returned to Puglia, Italy, where his family had continued to live. His only grandchild, 7-year-old Carla, is blind. The whole family looks forward hopefully to the day when Carla’s sight can be restored by means of a cornea transplantation. After a heart attack, Giuseppe decides to wait no longer and returns to Switzerland to ask his former boss Mr. Broyer for the money necessary for the operation, as an old promise binds the two men. Intended as a 48-hour trip, Giuseppe and Carla’s visit in Switzerland becomes a journey that both grandfather and granddaughter never dreamt of…
original title: | Azzurro |
country: | Switzerland, Italy, France |
sales agent: | Telepool |
year: | 2000 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Denis Rabaglia |
film run: | 83' |
release date: | CH 25/10/2000, DE 02/08/2001, IT 25/10/2001 |
screenplay: | Denis Rabaglia, Luca de Benedittis, Antoine Jaccoud |
cast: | Paolo Villaggio, Francesca Pipoli, Marie-Christine Barrault, Antonio Petrocelli, Jean-Luc Bideau, Renato Scarpa, Soraya Gomaa, Tom Novembre |
cinematography by: | Dominique Grosz |
film editing: | Claudio Di Mauro |
art director: | Fabrizio Nicora |
costumes designer: | Eva Coen |
music: | Louis Crelier |
producer: | Edi Hubschmid, Chris Bolzli, Elisabetta Riga, Gherardo Pagliei |
production: | C-Films, Alhena Films, Gam Film, Tecnovisual, Machinassou, Radiotelevisione Svizzera di Lingua Italiana |
distributor: | Frenetic Films, Lares Video (IT), Delphi Filmverleih (DE) |