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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.Trailer
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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
Alice Rohrwacher
Alba Rohrwacher, Maria Alexandra Lungu, Sam Louwyck, Sabine Timoteo, Monica Bellucci, André Hennnicke, Agnese Graziani
Carlo Cresto-Dina, Karl Baumgartner, Paolo Del Brocco, Tiziana Soudani, Michael Weber
Hélène Louvart
Marco Spoletini
Piero Crucitti
Emita Frigato
Loredana Buscemi
Chiara Polizzi
Burkhard Althoff, Doris Hepp
The Match Factory
Tempesta srl.; Rai Cinema; Amka Films Productions; Pola Pandora Filmproduktion; RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera; SSR SRG; ZDF/Das kleine Fernsehspiel; ARTE
Tags
Coming of AgeFamily and RelationshipsFaithHumourAdolescenceLove and RomanceMusicMotherFemale DirectorsAnimalsFather