Italy
APNEA
CLAUDIO SANTAMARIA
CREDITS
35mm - Color - 93’
Direction: Roberto Dordit
Script: Roberto Dordit
Screenplay: Roberto Dordit con / with Serena Brugnolo
Photography: Tommaso Borgstrom
Editing: Luciana Pandolfelli
Music: Paolo Buonvino, Pasquale Laino
Set Design: Beatrice Scarpato
Costumes: Maria De Fornasari
Cast: Claudio Santamaria, Fabrizia Sacchi, Michela Noonan, Diego Ribon, Giuseppe Battiston, Elio De Capitani, Daniele Mauro, Emilio De Marchi, Enrica Rosso, Emanuel Dabone
Produttore Producer: Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima
Produzione Production: Indigo Film in collaborazione con RAI Cinema
World sales: Istituto Luce
SYNOPSIS
After a brilliant career as a fencer, Paolo works as sport journalist in a small journal. Franz, a friend of his, dies of an heart attack. He was a former fence champion like him, and he had become entrepreneur, as many others in that rich province in the North.
By accident, Paolo realises that the life of his departed friend was not so clear as he thought. His death, too, seems to conceal a secret. The search for truth becomes for Paolo an intrusion in a distant world, the one of rich tanning industrialists. It is a dirty but fascinating environment, the occasion for unusual encounters such as the one with rich Giordano’s children: Chiara, the young reckless daugther; little Leo, suffering from autism. It will be the latter to help Paolo to shed a light upon the life of his friend Franz and the circumstances of his death.
CLAUDIO SANTAMARIA
Brought up at Prati quarter in Rome, he attended the School of Art. At 16, before finishing the secondary school, he studied acting and dubbing and later attended the three-year-course of acting training held by Beatrice Bracco. In 1995 he took part in the company Area Teatro gaining an important success at Todi Festival with the play L’anello di Erode. He makes his début in cinema in 1997 in Fuochi d’artificio by Pieraccioni. He soon gains the trust of important directors, both in cinema (Muccino, Marco Risi and Bernardo Bertolucci) and in television (Pozzessere, Damiani), playing a wide range of characters. He improves his style attending Francesca De Sapio’s, Tapa Sudana’s, Giancarlo Sepe’s and Michael Margotta’s laboratories, and welcomes the new millennium with such films as Almost blue and L’ultimo bacio for which he obtains a nomination to David di Donatello. In the following years he obtains more and more often leading actor roles in films ranging from comedy to drama and thriller, obtaining nominations to Nastri d’argento for PAZ! by De Maria and Passato Prossimo by Tognazzi. Other important works in quality cinema such as Apnea by Roberto Dordit and Ma quando arrivano le ragazze? by Pupi Avati, before the great success obtained with the Dandy in Romanzo Criminale by Michele Placido. After the terrorist role in the new episode by James Bond Casino Royale, he has interpreted the lamented singer and songwriter Rino Gaetano for a TV film, and is working on the Salentinian set of Davide Barletti and Lorenzo Conte’s film (Fluid Video Crew) Fine pena mai.
FILMOGRAPHY
2006 Casino Royale di Martin Campbell
2005 Melissa P. di Luca Guadagnino
2004 Romanzo Criminale di Michele Placido
2004 Ma quando arrivano le ragazze? di Pupi Avati
2003 Il cartaio di Dario Argento
2003 Apnea di Roberto Dordit
2003 Agata e la tempesta di Silvio Soldini
2003 Rosso di Claudio Santamaria, cm
2002 Passato prossimo di Maria Sole Tognazzi
2002 Il posto dell’anima di Riccardo Milani
2002 Sei come sei: cortometraggio Appuntamento al buio di H. Simone Paragnani
2001 Paz di Renato De Maria
2001 La vita come viene di Stefano Incerti
2000 La stanza del figlio di Nanni Moretti
2000 Il mondo è fatto a scale (frammenti) di Piero Natoli, cm
2000 L’ultimo bacio di Gabriele Muccino
2000 Almost blu di Alex Infascelli
1999 Un amore grandissimo di Alberto Taraglio
1999 Terra del fuoco di Miguel Littin
1999 The building di Nicola Barnaba, cm
1998 L’assedio di Bernardo Bertolucci
1997 L’ultimo capodanno dell’umanità di Marco Risi
1997 Ecco fatto di Gabriele Muccino
1997 Dead train di Davide Marengo, cm
AWARDS
2002 Newport IFF: Jury Award - Best Actor in L'ultimo bacio
2006 Nastro d'Argento to Best Actor in Romanzo Criminale
