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VERSIONE ITALIANA

 

DOCUMENTARY

GIUSEPPE DE SANTIS

THE PERFECT FIT

BEING CLAUDIA CARDINALE

LOOKING FOR SOPHIA

CESARE ZAVATTINI

ROSSELLINI:
FRAGMENTS AND WORDS


ROBERTO ROSSELLINI

LUCHINO VISCONTI


SERIES

TALKING ABOUT CINEMA
LOOKING FOR SOPHIA
by Roberto Olla

Italy, 2004
Production: Felix Film, Zdf/ARTE, AVRO, Rai Trade
Associate production: Surf Film
Executive production: Laura Pettini and Silvia Pettini for Felix Film
International distribution: Rai Trade
Format: Betacam SP – 52’
with the support of the MEDIA Plus Programme of the European Community

Looking for Sophia: the narrative structure of the documentary is already inserted in the title. It doesn’t talk about the star, or better, not only about the star, but about Sophia, the woman – daughter, lover, wife, mother, friend – about her personal and artistic story, about her expectation and her struggles. We are looking for and more and more recognizing Sophia in original interviews of foregoing directors, actors, her make up artists, one of her friends of childhood, in the interviews that Sophia herself gave through about fifty years of artistic life (collected in their original languages in archives of several European broadcasters, and international cinema archives) in the several roles she played on screen. Sophia Loren makes us able to go through seventy years of history, starting from Pozzuoli, going from the Second World War to re-birth of Italy, until recognizing us in changes of social life and international costume represented by so many movies.