Italiano
Il Principe di Roma di Edoardo Falcone, distributed by Lucky Red, will be released in Italian cinemas on Thursday, November 17th, 2022. The film was presented in the section Grand Public of the 17th Rome Film Fest.
IL PRINCIPE DI ROMA
Director
Edoardo Falcone
Nations
Italy
Year
2022
Duration
90′
Cast
Marco Giallini
Giulia Bevilacqua
Filippo Timi
Sergio Rubini
Denise Tantucci
Andrea Sartoretti
Giuseppe Battiston
Rome, 1829. Bartolomeo is a rich and greedy man who craves an aristocratic title more than any other thing. In his attempt to raise the money he needs to close a secret deal with Prince Accoramboni to obtain his daughter’s hand in marriage, he will find himself on a surprising horseback ride between past, present and future. Riding with exceptional companions he will have to come to terms with himself and gain new awareness.
COMMENTARY
Even if this is Papal Rome in 1829 and the main character is one of the greatest leading men in contemporary cinema, Marco Giallini, the real, unthinkable starting point of the film Edoardo Falcone wrote with Marco Martani and Paolo Costella is Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. And working to change the mind of this Scrooge from Trastevere are no less than the ghosts of Giordano Bruno (Filippo Timi), Pope Borgia (Giuseppe Battiston) and Beatrice Cenci (Denise Tantucci). Reinterpreted by an eye that takes into account Belli’s sonnets and Bartolomeo Pinelli’s prints.
EDOARDO FALCONE
Edoardo Falcone was born in Rome in 1968. He began his career in cabaret and continued as a theatre actor. He wrote the screenplays for many feature-length films, including Escort in Love (2011), Viva l’Italia (2012) and Us in the US (2013). In 2015 he wrote and directed God Willing, which won him the David di Donatello and a Nastro d’argento as best debut director. In 2017 he directed It’s All About Karma, featuring Gigi Proietti in his final performance.
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
I have always wanted to make a movie set in Rome in the time of the Pope King. A wish I have had since as a child, my mother took me to see Luigi Magni’s Nell’anno del Signore. To bring that world back to life I drew inspiration from a great literary classic: Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. It all started with a question: what if that hateful Scrooge had lived in Rome instead of London in the nineteenth century? This idea led to situations, characters and developments that were absolutely original with respect to Dickens’ world. Conversely, the ghosts remained, and continue to wander for centuries along the streets of the Eternal City to guide our protagonist on an extraordinary adventure across his life.
