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Nightmares and Dreams

  • 2011
  • 1h 25m
IMDb RATING
5.4/10
7
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Film Color 35 mm. Duration 85 '


Written and directed by 
Roberto Aguerre Ravizza

Acting Gabriele Lavia and Leopoldo Trieste, together in this picture,
whose first shooting started in the late 93 'and early 94'. 


Gabriele Lavia is the main character of the recent shooting, Leopoldo Trieste the main character of the later shooting. Two artists, together with the other equally valuable actors, playing a non-traditional drama based on dream-like echoes of emotions and stories.

The richness  and variety of contents, as well as the deep  insight of the characters acting in the past and present, offer a wide range of possible and articulated individual readings.  A work that is open to multiple interpretations suggesting and inviting the public  to play an active role in the story and become co-authors.

Dialogues among the characters, often intermingled in a hinted time sequence, offer suggestions for reflection on the events describing an inner autobiography guided by the facts which determined the story and therefore the screen play of the film.

This movie has also a clear anti Berlusconian criticism: the title itself, alludes to the political period starting sixteen years ago, coinciding with the beginning of the production which was suspended due to force majeure; details are gradually revealed in the film.
 
The film, censured in Italy, includes, in its initial part, an interview to Giovanni Sartori offering a punctual synthesis of the BerlusconiÂ’s period. Such an authoritative presence represents one of the keys to viewing the movie which is set in Uruguay and Italy, and develops through a series nightmares, coming up from the prisons of Montevideo and reappearing in Rome -  and the dreams of Italian immigrants in a continuous search for a better world, in the past and present.
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Acting Gabriel Lavia and Leopoldo Trieste, together in this picture, whose first shooting started in late 93, and early 94. Gabriele Lavia is the main character of the recent shooting, Leopo... Read allActing Gabriel Lavia and Leopoldo Trieste, together in this picture, whose first shooting started in late 93, and early 94. Gabriele Lavia is the main character of the recent shooting, Leopoldo Trieste the main character of the later shooting. Two artists, together with the other... Read allActing Gabriel Lavia and Leopoldo Trieste, together in this picture, whose first shooting started in late 93, and early 94. Gabriele Lavia is the main character of the recent shooting, Leopoldo Trieste the main character of the later shooting. Two artists, together with the other equally valuable actors, playing a non-traditional drama based on dream-like echoes of em... Read all

  • Director
    • Roberto Aguerre
  • Writer
    • Roberto Aguerre
  • Stars
    • Nelly Atúnez
    • Rosita Baffico
    • Hugo Fattoruso
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.4/10
    7
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Roberto Aguerre
    • Writer
      • Roberto Aguerre
    • Stars
      • Nelly Atúnez
      • Rosita Baffico
      • Hugo Fattoruso
    • 1User review
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Nelly Atúnez
    • Eulalia
    Rosita Baffico
    • Grandmother
    Hugo Fattoruso
    Hugo Fattoruso
    • Musician
    Gabriele Lavia
    Gabriele Lavia
    • Author
    María Mendive
    • Paola
    José Luis Rondán
    • Self - Comisario
    Giovanni Sartori
    • Self
    Nino Tenuta
    • Eustaquio
    Leopoldo Trieste
    Leopoldo Trieste
    • Giovanni
    • Director
      • Roberto Aguerre
    • Writer
      • Roberto Aguerre
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      The role of Comisario Rondán is played by the Comisario Rondán himself (working in Montevideo), who had a role in the real story 16 years ago.

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      • United States
      • Uruguay
      • Italy
    • Language
      • Italian
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      • 1h 25m(85 min)
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