From Guiseppe Tornatore, director of “Cinema Paradiso”, this is a story drenched in the filmmaker’s love for cinema. Set in Sicily in the early 1950s, it is the story of Joe Morelli (Sergio Castellitto), a con man who travels by truck from village to village posing as a film company representative. For a fee, he offers his victims screen tests, using passages from a script of “0
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
312159
Language
Italian
Audience classification
R (18+)
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Foreign language films
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Motion pictures - Production and direction
Crime, Espionage, Justice, Police & Prisons → Swindlers and swindling
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)