The Star Maker (1995)
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This Italian film was released in 1995 and slowly made its way around the world; its English title is The Star Maker. Like the Oscar-winning Cinema Paradiso by the same writer-director, Guiseppe Tornatore, it's drenched in the filmmaker's love for cinema. In Sicily in the early 1950s, Joe Morelli (Sergio Castellitto) is a con man who travels by truck from village to village posing as a film company representative. For a fee, he offers the rubes screen tests, using passages from a script of Gone with the Wind and encouraging their hopes with lines such as "Success awaits you!" Morelli's camera brings out people's hidden sides, including a soldier's war trauma, a woman's protests at being accused of prostitution, and a policeman who recites poetry. Begging for a chance at the stardom Morelli purportedly offers, Beata (Tiziana Lodato) asks Morelli to take her with him. ~ Michael Betzold, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 107 mins
Complete Cast:
- Sergio Castellitto - Joe Morelli
- Franco Scaldati - Mastropaolo
- Tano Cimarosa - Bordonaro
- Luigi Maria Burruano - Womanizer
- Jane Alexander - Princess
- Antonella Attili - Nurse
- Tony Sperandeo - Primo Badalamenti
- Leopoldo Trieste - Mute Man
- Clelia Rondinella - Anna's mother
- Leo Gullotta - Vito
- Nicola di Pinto - Clerk
- Director(s):
- Giuseppe Tornatore
- Writer(s):
- Giuseppe Tornatore
- Producer(s):
- Rita Cecchi Gori, Vittorio Cecchi Gori
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R
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- 1995 - The Star Maker - Venice International Film Festival - Special Grand Prize of the Jury
