After the presentation a Venice 80 in the Giornate degli Autori – Notti Veneziane section, from 13 June in cinemas with Fandango Anna by Marco Amenta, former director of the film “The Sicilian Rebel” and the documentary “The Ghost of Corleone”.
Anna – Plot and cast
Beautiful, wild and magnetic like the uncontaminated nature of her Sardinia, Anna lives to the rhythm of the earth’s breath. A land that heals her wounds and nourishes her soul. The difficult experiences that she has gone through have marked her, but she has not folded. And today Anna is a free woman who no longer wants to be afraid. In the remote corner of the island where she manages the small farm that belonged to her father, time seems to have stopped and Anna’s presence with her erotic energy and courageous rejection of conventions has the power of a landmine. ready to explode. That harsh land protects her, until the day she has to protect it from the mechanical monsters who want to rape her. Saving her beauty and preserving her freedom come together in Anna’s battle, forcing difficult choices and painful sacrifices on her. Because nothing can buy respect for oneself and one’s beliefs.
The cast: Rose Aste (Anna), Daniele Monachelli (lawyer Rossini) and Marco Zucca (Ruggero).
Anna – The new official clips
Curiosity
- Eurofilm, Videa Next Station, Inthelfilm, Mact Productions and Rai Cinema present a film by Marco Amenta. Written by Marco Amenta and Niccolò Stazzi with the screenplay by the same with Anna Mittone and the collaboration of Tania Pedroni.
- Made with the support of the Autonomous Region of Sardinia, Sardegna Film Commission Foundation, Eurimages, MIC Directorate General for Cinema and Audiovisual, Ile de France Region. Co-financed by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union. Developed with This is it (Trieste Film Festival), Cinemed (Montpellier Film Festival), Crossroads Co-production Forum (Thessaloniki Film Festival), De Rome a Paris (Anica, MIC, CNC)
The rooms where you can watch the film and special screening in Rome
Director’s notes
Inspired by an event that happened in Sardinia a few years ago, Anna is a story of resistance against power. The unscrupulous power of a blind capitalism ready to destroy everything is reflected in the power of a chauvinist and prevaricating society. And by fighting one, the protagonist also fights the other. The fight for her personal salvation becomes, despite her, and without any ideology, a battle for the defense of the environment and a fierce resistance to violence and chauvinism. Anna is a woman who doesn’t want to lower her head and fights not to be crushed, she doesn’t want to be a victim but she’s not a heroine either. For me it was important to outline the portrait of a real woman, full of defects and fragility far from any stereotype. [Marco Amenta]
Anna – The official trailer
Marco Amenta – Biographical notes
Born in Palermo, Marco Amenta began as a photojournalist, with reports on the Mafia, and as a war correspondent in Bosnia. His photos are published as «photo of the year» in «Libération» and «Max». He then obtained a degree in Cinema at the Université Paris 8.
He directed his first documentary in 1997, Diary of a rebellious Sicilian. The film wins numerous international awards and is broadcast on around thirty international television stations.
In 2005 it turns The ghost of Corleone. Four years later, you made your first fiction feature film, The rebellious Sicilianwhich received many awards around the world and two nominations for the David di Donatello (including Best Debut Director) and the Nastri d’Argento.
Between 2014 and 2016 he made documentaries Silvio Mon Amour and Magic Island. With the latter, she received another David nomination. In 2018 it’s the turn of The Lone Girl, in competition at the Biografilm Festival. Return to feature film fiction in 2021 with Among the wavesin competition at the BIF&ST and RIFF.
The official poster
