Italy

SOLE NEGLI OCCHI

FABRIZIO GIFUNI

CREDITS

35mm - Color - 90’

Direction: Andrea Porporati
Screenplay: Andrea Porporati
Photography: Franco Lecca
Editing: Simona Paggi
Set Design: Beatrice Scarpato
Costumes: Beatrice Scarpato
Music: Andrea Guerra
Cast: Fabrizio Gifuni, Valerio Mastandrea, Delia Boccardo, Emanuela Macchniz, Gianni Cavina.
Producer: Marco Risi, Maurizio Tedeschi
Production: Sorpasso Film, RAI Cinema
Distribution: 01 Distribution
World sales: Buskin Film

SYNOPSIS

Marco kills his father. It is one of the many inexplicable murders that the news reports ascribe to a raptus of madness. Marco has lead a life similar to many others, in the North of Italy, in prosperity. But there is a rupture in himself, kept under the surface of normality. An apparently inexplicable hatred against his father, increased in everyday life, year after year which breaks out in the murder.
After the crime, Marco seeks refuge in a seaside resort, in a small hotel, among the tourists on holiday.
It is there that Rinaldi, a policeman who suspect him, finds him. He soon realises that he is not a simple criminal, but a young man afflicted by a drama greater than him, a trauma suffered in the past, that has changed him and that in a way has used him, pushing him to commit the murder.
Fate decrees that in the room nearby there is an adolescent girl who is living her first love and who will never know that the young man next door is a killer. That little impossibile feeling, so light and struggling, is irresistible for Marco. It is the beginning of a deep crisis, the occasion to open up his eyes on the real reasons that pushed him to kill, reasons that were unknown to himself and that draw their origins from his personality and his past. He breaks into that shadow zone which is in the dephts of any of us. The mystery of commonness of evil.

FABRIZIO GIFUNI

After his studies at the National Academy of Dramatic Art "Silvio D'Amico", he starts his career as an actor at theatre in 1993, playing Orestes, in Electra by Euripides directed by Massimo Castri, who will direct him again, in the following years, in Trilogia della villeggiatura by Goldoni. Later he collaborates with Sepe, Terzopoulos and Malosti. He is the author and interpreter of the plays Na specie de cadavere lunghissimo (from P.P.Pasolini and G.Somalvico), directed by Giuseppe Bertolucci (2004) - for which he is awarded Hystrio Prize – and L’ingegner Gadda va alla guerra. In 2006 he produces I kiss your hands, half-serious catalogue of Mozart’s letters, with Sonia Bergamasco and the musicians Rea, Damiani and Trovesi.
In 1996 he makes his début in cinema with the film La bruttina stagionata by Anna Di Francisca. Among his films Vite in sospeso by Marco Turco, Così ridevano by Gianni Amelio (Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival 1998), Un amore and Qui non è il paradiso by Gianluca Tavarelli, Il partigiano Johnny by Guido Chiesa, Hannibal by Ridley Scott, L'amore probabilmente by Giuseppe Bertolucci, Sole negli occhi by Andrea Porporati, L'inverno by Nina Di Majo, La meglio gioventù by Marco Tullio Giordana,
De Gasperi by Liliana Cavani, Musikanten by Franco Battiato, Fratelli di sangue by Davide Sordella.
European revelation at Berlin Film Festival, in 2002. In the same year he receives the Golden Globe of foreign press and De Sica Award for the cinematographic season. In 2004 he is awarded the Nastro d’argento Prize as Leading Actor in the film La meglio gioventù and, in 2005, the Flaiano Prize for the interpretation of Alcide De Gasperi.

FILMOGRAPHY

2006 Fratelli di sangue di Davide Sordella
2005 Musikanten di Franco Battiato
2003 Movimenti di Claudio Fausti, Serafino Murri
2002 La meglio gioventù di Marco Tullio Giordana
2001 Hannibal di Ridley Scott
2001 L'inverno di Nina Di Maio
2000 Sole negli occhi di Andrea Porporati
2000 Il partigiano Jhonny di Guido Chiesa
2000 L'amore probabilmente di Giuseppe Bertolucci
2000 Qui non è il paradiso di Gianluca Maria Tavarelli
2000 Fate un bel sorriso di Anna Di Francisca
1999 La carbonara di Luigi Magni
1999 Un amore di Gianluca Maria Tavarelli
1998 Così ridevano di Gianni Amelio
1998 Vite in sospeso di Marco Turco
1996 La bruttina stagionata di Anna Di Francisca

AWARDS

2002 Globo d'oro e Premio De Sica per la stagione cinematografica
2004 Nastro d'Argento come attore protagonista per La meglio gioventù
2002 Golden Globe and De Sica Prize for the cinematographic season
2004 Nastro d'Argento as Leading Actor in La meglio gioventù
1996 Artemisia di Agnese Merlet
1995 Portrait of a lady di Jane Campion