Azzurro (2000)

Movie
German title	Azzurro
Original title	Azzurro
Country of production	France , Italy , Switzerland
original language	Italian , French
Publishing year	2000
length	82 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Denis Rabaglia
script	Antoine Jaccoud Denis Rabaglia Luca De Benedettis
production	Chris Bozli
music	Louis Crelier
camera	Dominique Grosz
cut	Claudio Di Mauro
occupation
Paolo Villaggio : Giuseppe De Metrio Francesca Pipoli : Carla De Metrio Marie-Christine Barrault : Elizabeth Broyer Jean-Luc Bideau : Gaston Broyer Renato Scarpa : Giorgio Julien Boisselier : Pascal Broyer Antonio Petrocelli : Roberto De Metrio Soraya Gomaa : Lucia De Metrio Tom Novembre : Philippe Graziano Giusti : Professor Papaleo

Azzurro (Italian for the color azure ) is a road movie from 2000.

action

The old man Giuseppe has a serious heart condition. Before he goes “through the door”, he wants his granddaughter to see the azure blue sea. The seven-year-old is blind and an operation is very expensive. Of course, the pensioner Giuseppe could not raise this sum, so to the horror of his children he set off on the long trip alone with his granddaughter to Geneva , where he lived for many years as a guest worker and where he still had an old financial friend, his former employer , hopes to meet.

There the relationship to the wife of the former and now mentally confused and impoverished employer, which has not remained entirely without consequences, emerges. All the protagonists carefully approach.

background

The title of the film is also the title of the world-famous Italian hit Azzurro by Paolo Conte (in its best-known interpretation by Adriano Celentano ), which can also be heard several times in the film.

The premiere took place on August 12, 2000 as the closing film of the 53rd Locarno International Film Festival , in which the main actor Paolo Villaggio was honored with an honorary leopard for his life's work. The film was released on October 25, 2000 and January 25, 2001 in cinemas in French-speaking and German-speaking Switzerland.

There is a full Italian and a full French dubbing of the film.

Reviews

The film-dienst (6/2007) describes Azzurro as a "film fairy tale with a pronounced social touch that confidently emphasizes its sentimental note and puts the focus on human dignity". Furthermore, the film-dienst remarked : "Laconic wit and a deep belief in humanity characterize the film, carried by an outstanding leading actor, who tells its story poetically and truthfully."

Awards

Azzurro was awarded the Swiss Film Prize at the 2001 Solothurn Film Festival.

Web links

• Azzurro in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Azzurro on the website of the director Denis Rabaglia (German, English, French, Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Azzurro. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .