The Star Maker (1995)
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 120 mins
Theatrical Release Information:
The Star Maker
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
Complete Cast of The Star Maker:
Franco Scaldati also in Kaos , The Passion of Joshua the Jew
Tony Sperandeo also in La Scorta , The Sicilian
Sergio Castellitto also in The Wedding Director , Padre Pio , Don't Move , My Mother's Smile , Nero , Mostly Martha
The Star Maker Trivia
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