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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 1989 - 29 July.6 August

Sections & Films

TOMMY TRICKER AND THE STAMP TRAVELLER

Category: Edition 1989

Synopsis
When the joker Tommy Tricker plays some practical jokes on some of his friends, his best friend Ralph, a stamp collector, discovers the secret of "stamp travel" to make him travel around the world on a stamp to bring back the mysterious Charles Merriweather, who never returned on a stamp for 75 years.

Original Title Les aventuriers du timbre perdu
Italian Title Tommy Tricker e il francobollo magico
Category Out of competition
Section Portrait
Tipology Feature Film
Duration 105'
Production Year 1988
Nationality Canada
Directed by Michael Rubbo
Screenplay Michael Rubbo
Main cast Lucas Evans, Anthony Rogers, Jill Stanley

 regista Michael RubboMICHAEL RUBBO

Michael Dattilo Rubbo (born 31 December 1938) is an Australian filmmaker, screenwriter, and publisher who has written and directed over 50 films in documentary and fiction. Rubbo studied at Scotch College, Melbourne, and read anthropology at Sydney University, before travelling on a Fulbright scholarship to study film at Stanford University, California where he got his MA in Communication Arts. Rubbo worked for 20 years as a documentary film director at the National Film Board of Canada before returning to Australia.