SAND & FIRE
synopsis
Based on a true story, the film is about the story of Domingo Badia, officer in the Spanish army, sent in Morocco as “secret agent” by the name of Ali Bey to overthrow the sultan Moulay Slimane accused of selling wheat to English people in exchange for weapons (that then he would have directed against Spain) and Lady Hester Stanhope, niece of the English prime minister William Pitt and influential political figure, to whom a guy named Richard Brothers – famous for having perfectly predicted the beheading of Louis XVI – announced that she would have become queen of Palmira, the new Zenobia.
international title: | Sand & Fire |
original title: | De Sable et de Feu |
country: | Morocco, Italy |
year: | 2019 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Souheil Benbarka |
film run: | 116' |
release date: | FR 18/09/2019 |
screenplay: | Souheil Benbarka, Monica Giansanti, Bernard Stora |
cast: | Rodolfo Sancho, Carolina Crescentini, Massimo Ghini, Marco Bocci, Marisa Paredes, Giancarlo Giannini, Emanuele Vezzoli, Christo Jivkov, Imanol Arias |
cinematography by: | Ugo Menegatti |
film editing: | Lorenzo Fanfani |
art director: | Marco Trentini |
costumes designer: | Myriam Laraki |
music: | Stefano Lentini |
producer: | Souheil Benbarka |
co-producer: | Marco Gaudenzi |
production: | Flat Parioli, Jal's Production (MA) |
backing: | Film Commission Torino Piemonte (IT) |