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OT: Le Meraviglie

Alice Rohrwacher | Germany, Italy, Switzerland, 2014
Fiction Feature | FF2023
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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.

 

 

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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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Le Meraviglie

Fiction Feature

German, French, Italian

Kaleidoscope | FF2023


Germany, Italy, Switzerland

2014

111 min

OV with German subtitles

Alice Rohrwacher

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The Match Factory

Tempesta srl.; Rai Cinema; Amka Films Productions; Pola Pandora Filmproduktion; RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera; SSR SRG; ZDF/Das kleine Fernsehspiel; ARTE

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Coming of AgeFamily and RelationshipsFaithHumourAdolescenceLove and RomanceMusicMotherFemale DirectorsAnimalsFather

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