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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 2000 - 15.22 July

Sections & Films

THE SKY IS FALLING

Category: Edition 2000

Synopsis
Summer 1944. Penny and Baby after the death of their parents, go to live in the aunt's Tuscan villa, married to a fascinating Jewish intellectual, idealist and champion of justice. The house is a sort of happy island where the girls find new friendships and discover love, but it is also the place where they will be forced to become aware of a cruel and ineluctable reality.

Original Title Il cielo cade
Italian Title Il cielo cade
Category Official Competition
Section Free to Fly
Tipology Feature Film
Duration 102'
Production Year 2000
Nationality Italy
Directed by Andrea Frazzi, Antonio Frazzi
Screenplay Lorenza Mazzetti
Main cast Isabella Rossellini, Jeroen Krabbé, Barbara Enrichi

 regista andrea frazziANDREA FRAZZI

Andrea Frazzi (Florence, 1944) is an Italian director and screenwriter.
He made his debut in 1972, together with his twin brother Antonio, as a theater director. Among the comedies staged four hands, we point out the two most important with the Cooperative Company Buonarroti of Florence: Victor or the children in power (with Franco Difrancescantonio, Marcellina Ruocco, Flavio Andreini and Silvia Luzzi); Don Giovanni (Di Francescantonio, Andreini, Ruocco, Sergio Ciulli). The setting up of the American Nash's Rain Wizard was also very thick, done with the Italian Drama of Fiume (now Croatia) in 1976.
The collaboration with Rai began in 1975, and will lead to the production of numerous programs and fiction, among which will be directed by Two Mothers for Rocco, L'avvocato delle donne and Don Milani - Il priore di Barbiana. The first experience as director of a feature film will take place with Il cielo cade, a film based on the homonymous novel by Lorenza Mazzetti.

 regista antonio frazziANTONIO FRAZZI

Antonio Frazzi (Florence, 1944) is an Italian director and screenwriter.
The professional biography of Antonio Frazzi is accompanied by the same as that of his twin brother Andrea. A combination that has perfectly worked both in the theater (some titles: Children in power of Roger Vitrac, Don Giovanni of Brecht-Hauptman from Molière, in Florence, The wizard of the rain of Nash in Fiume) that in cinema and television. Among the television works there are After the storm (1996), Storia di Chiara (1995).
Antonio Frazzi is a juror of the David di Donatello and of the European Film Academy.