After the competition Venice 80from December 14 will appear in cinemas in Italy with Vision Distribution. Slowlynew film by Stefano Sollima (“Suburra”) with Pierfrancesco Favino, Valerio Mastandrea and Toni Servillo, the third chapter of Sollima’s trilogy about crime Rome after AKAB (2012) e subura (2015).
Adagio – Plot and Cast
Official plot: Manuel, a sixteen-year-old boy, tries to enjoy life to the best of his ability while taking care of his elderly father. A victim of blackmail, he goes to a party to take a picture of a mystery man, but feeling cheated, decides to run away. As such, he is pursued by blackmailers who prove to be extremely dangerous and determined to eliminate what they consider an inconvenient witness. Manuel realizes that he is entangled in something bigger than himself, and will be forced to seek protection from two former criminals, old acquaintances of his father.
The cast of Adagio includes Pierfrancesco Favino, Valerio Mastandrea, Toni Servillo, Adriano Giannini, Lorenzo Adorni, Francesco Di Leva, Marzio El Moeti, Emilio Franchini and Silvia Salvatori.
Adagio – Trailer and Video
The red carpet video from the Venezia 80 will be released on September 3, 2023.
Movie Trivia
- Stefano Sollima directs “Adagio” according to a script written jointly with Stefano Bises.
- Technical composition: Cinematography by Paolo Carner / Editing by Matthew Newman (in collaboration with Silvia De Rose) / Set design by Paki Meduri / Costumes by Mariano Tufano / Sound by Marichetta Lombardo / Visual effects by Stefano Leoni (Effetti Digitali Italiani)
- The original music for the film was written by the Turin band Subsonica.
- The film is produced by The Apartment Pictures (Lorenzo Mieli), a Fremantle group company, Vision Distribution (Massimiliano Orfei), a Sky group company and AlterEgo (Ludovico Purgatori).
Director’s Notes
After my experience abroad, I finally got back to talking about my city. Rome has changed and so have I. I watched him with different eyes as he walked through the streets with one more step. Proverb. This is the story of the inexorable, sharp fall of three old legends of criminal Rome in search of impossible redemption in a world even more cynical, chaotic and cruel than the one they ruled in their golden years. A world that destroys family, friendship and fraternal relations, leaving no ties between men other than money. A city in chaos, corruption, cynicism, suffocating heat, devastated by fires and the darkness of blackouts… But there is a glimmer of light. New Generation. (Stefano Sollima)
Stefano Sollima – Biographical Notes
He was born in Rome in 1966. He began his career as a cameraman, filming for CNN, NBC, CBS and other foreign television networks numerous reports from war zones (Libya, Algeria, Romania, Israel, Gulf War, former war). Yugoslavia) Thank you (16mm/bn/9′), his debut short film, won 3rd prize at the 1992 Turin Youth Film Festival in the competition in the Spazio Italia section.
They follow Under the nails (16mm/colour/4′) – in the competition of the Cannes Film Festival in the section “International Time of French Criticism” (1993) and Zippo (35mm/Bn/10ft) in competition at the 60th Venice International Film Festival and Sitges Sezion Fantastic (2003).
Stefano Sollima started working in television already in 1998 and, among other things, signs the direction of numerous series Team AND crimes, a television series much loved and followed by the public. Deserved and recognized success comes in 2008 when he directs Cattleya and SkyCinema. Crime novel, TV Series.
The film debut took place in 2012. ACAB – All cops are bastardsvery well received by the public and critics. Stefano Sollima from 2012 to 2013 is the creator and director Gomorrah series, produced by Sky Italia, Cattleya and Fandango. This is a big TV success and not only in Italy: the series is sold in more than 143 countries.
subura this is his second feature film. Produced by Cattleya with Rai Cinema, starring Pierfrancesco Favino, Elio Germano, Claudio Amendola and Alessandro Borghi, among others. A bitter picture of today’s Rome: ferocious, corrupt, where political, religious and criminal power intertwine, clash and betray each other. Innocent people in the abyss, crime lords and masters… and in the background Rome, which still proves itself to be “a unique city in the world.”
In 2016, he began filming the TV adaptation ZeroZeroZero, another novel by Roberto Saviano. In the same year, Sollima’s arrival in Hollywood was announced. Soldierstarring Benicio del Toro and Josh Brolin, sequel to the film. killer Denis Villeneuve, released in autumn 2018. He also directs in the US without remorseStarring Michael B. Jordan, Taylor Sheridan’s adaptation of Tom Clancy’s novel of the same name, with whom he has already collaborated for Soldado, is released February 2021.
Adagio – Photos and Posters
