10/05/2019 - Besides the trailer for Gabriele Mainetti’s next film, the public broadcaster’s international sales arm is pinning its hopes on the new Gabriele Salvatores movie and the thriller I’m Not a Murderer

RAI Com is about to set off for the Marché du Film at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival clutching a catalogue that includes films which are still showing in Italian theatres, such as the thriller I’m Not a Murderer [+see also:
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The public broadcaster’s international sales arm also has high hopes for Ordinary Happiness [+see also:
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Another literary adaptation, the thriller I’m Not a Murderer, is the sophomore feature by Andrea Zaccariello, based on Francesco Caringella’s novel of the same name. In it, Riccardo Scamarcio plays deputy police superintendent Francesco Prencipe, who is accused of killing one of his friends, a judge. Performing alongside Scamarcio in the movie are Alessio Boni, Edoardo Pesce and Claudia Gerini. The picture, staged by Pepito Produzioni, Viola Film and RAI Cinema, with contributions from Italy’s Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and backing from the Apulia Film Commission Foundaiton, hit screens on 20 April and is currently in seventh place in the box-office charts.

RAI Com is also publicising the fact that buyers will be able to watch the trailer for Freaks Out [+see also:
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film profile]. Among the titles in post-production that RAI Com will be touting are the new effort by Gabriele Salvatores, Volare [+see also:
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film profile] by Giorgio Diritti, a biopic of the great Italian painter Antonio Ligabue, one of the true masters and leading figures of the international contemporary art scene, toplined by Elio Germano, who is flanked by Oliver Ewy, Paola Lavini and Gianni Fantoni. Production duties are being handled by Palomar with RAI Cinema, with contributions from the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, and backing from the Emilia-Romagna Film Commission (see the article).

The slate also includes Dafne [+see also:
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(Translated from Italian)