Synopse
Puberty with bees in the Berlusconi era: Alice Rohrwacher’s poetic coming-of-age drama won the Jury Grand Prix at Cannes in 2014. Gelsomina is 14 and lives in Tuscany. Her father, a former left-wing idealist from Germany, just about manages to keep the family above water with his beekeeping. To earn some extra money, he takes in a criminal youth in the framework of a social programme, who promptly turns Gelsomina’s emotional world upside down. When a new EU guideline threatens the honey farm, the girl hatches a plan: to get her family on the TV show Village Wonders – even if her father is dead against it.
Regie
ALICE ROHRWACHER (*1981 in Italy) grew up as the daughter of an Italian teacher and a German beekeeper in Tuscany and studied literature and philosophy, followed by screenplay writing in Turin. All of her four films to date have had their premieres at Cannes.
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Info
Original Title: Le Meraviglie
International Title: The Wonders
Category: Feature
Section: Kaleidoskop
Version & Subtitles: Italian, French, German OV with German subtitles
Director: Alice Rohrwacher
Cast/Protagonists: Alba Rohrwacher, Maria Alexandra Lungu, Sam Louwyck, Sabine Timoteo, Monica Bellucci, André Hennnicke, Agnese Graziani
Production country: Switzerland, Germany, Italy
Year of Production: 2014
Length: 111 min
Producer: Carlo Cresto-Dina, Karl Baumgartner, Paolo Del Brocco, Tiziana Soudani, Michael Weber
Production company: Tempesta srl., Rai Cinema, Amka Films Productions, Pola Pandora Filmproduktion, RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera, SSR SRG, ZDF/Das kleine Fernsehspiel, ARTE
World Sales: The Match Factory GmbH
