03/10/2017 - The cast includes Micaela Ramazzotti, Alessandro Gassmann, Laura Morante and Renato Carpentieri. Produced by BiBi Films with Rai Cinema

Actress Micaela Ramazzotti, director Roberto Andò and actor Alessandro Gassmann

"I wanted to return to a light tone, finding themes that have always been familiar: the fascination of deception, the idea that the imagination has concrete effects on real life, hidden feelings waiting for the opportune moment to get out." Roberto Andò introduces his new feature film, Una storia senza nome [+see also:
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Written by Roberto Andò and Angelo Pasquini (David di Donatello and Nastro d’Argento 2013 for the screenplay of Long Live Freedom) with the collaboration of Giacomo Bendotti (co-writer of The Wait [+see also:
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Produced by Angelo Barbagallo for BiBi Film with Rai Cinema, Una storia senza nome will be filmed for eight weeks in total, six of which will be on location in Rome and two in Palermo. Polish Jerzy Skolimowski, Gaetano Bruno and Antonio Catania also feature in the cast.

(Translated from Italian)