Viola di mare [videorecording] = Purple sea / una produzione Italian Dreams Factory presenta in collaborazione con Regione Siciliana - Assessorato Beni Culturali, Ambientali e Pubblica Istruzione, Dipartimento Beni Culturali, Ambientali ed Educazione Permanente, questa produzione è parte del programma Sensi Contemporanei Cinema e Audiovisivo, con il contributo del Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Dipartimento per lo spettacolo e lo Sport, Direzione Generale per il Cinema, MIBAC ; produttori esecutizi, Giovanna Emidi, Silvia Natili ; prodotto da Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Giulio Violati, Giovanna Emidi, Silvia Natili per Italian Dreams Factory s.r.l. ; diretto da Donatella Maiorca.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 3008-2 | Strand ReleasingLanguage: Italian Original language: Italian Subtitle language: English Publication details: [Culver City, Calif.] : Strand Releasing Home Video, 2010, c2009.Description: 1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inOther title: - Also known as: Sea purple
- Purple sea
- Director of photography, Roberta Allegrini ; editor, Marco Spoletini ; screenplay, Mario Cristiani, Donatella Maiorca, Donatella Diamanti, Pina Mandolfo ; music, Gianna Nannini, Wil Malone.
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Main Library | DVD | WORLD Viola di | Checked out | 06/07/2024 | 33111006965871 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A woman who dares to live as she pleases is officially declared a man in this historical drama inspired by a true story. Angela (Valeria Solarino) is a strong, passionate, and willful woman whose father (Ennio Fantastichini) operates a mining business for the Spanish royal family. Her father wanted a boy and makes no secret of his disgust with Angela, despite (or perhaps because of) her willingness to flaunt the conventions of what is acceptable for a woman in 19th century Spain. Angela is powerfully attracted to her childhood friend Sara (Isabella Ragonese), and though Sara is pledged to marry Tommaso (Marco Foschi), Angela sets out to win her heart. Her father, however, has arranged a marriage between Angela and the son of a business associate; Angela bitterly refuses to wed the young man, declaring she would prefer death to the false relationship. Her mother, Lucia (Giselda Volodi), arranges for a radical solution to this dilemma; using some privileged information as leverage, she persuades the village priest to declare that Angela is in fact Angelo and has been a male all along. This action prevents Angela from marrying the boy and allows her and Sara to be together, but now her father insists she take her place in a business she doesn't care about, and the community isn't sure how to react to the new "man" in the village. Viola di Mare (aka Purple Sea) was an official selection at the 2010 San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
Based on the book Minchia di re by Giacomo Pilati.
Bonus features: original theatrical trailer, other lesbian trailers, other Strand Releasing trailers.
Cataloged from container and Internet resources.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2009.
Director of photography, Roberta Allegrini ; editor, Marco Spoletini ; screenplay, Mario Cristiani, Donatella Maiorca, Donatella Diamanti, Pina Mandolfo ; music, Gianna Nannini, Wil Malone.
Valeria Solarino, Isabella Ragonese, Ennio Fantastichini, Giselda Volodi, Marco Foschi, Ester Cucinotti, Giovanni Moschella, Alessio Vassallo, Sergio Vespertino, Aurora Quattrocchi, Emanuela Corso, Giacoma Basirico, Maurizio Anastasi, Lucrezia Lante Della Rovere, Corrado Fortuna, Maria Grazia Cucinotta.
A scandal hidden in 19th century Sicily between two young women, Angela and Sara. Angela isn't t like other girls her age, she fears nothing and nobody. She can't hide her feelings for Sara. To maintain the forbidden relationship, she changes her outward appearance to disguise herself as a man. The chains that had imprisoned her existence suddenly disappear and she becomes powerful, but in her heart she never denies her identity as a woman.
DVD; widescreen.
In Italian ; optional English subtitles.