La stanza del figlio (2001)

Director:

Nanni Moretti

Writers:

Nanni Moretti (story)
Nanni Moretti (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:

9 March 2001 (Italy)

Genre:

Drama | Mystery

Plot:

A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.

Plot Keywords:

Psychoanalyst | Diving | Scuba Diving | Patient | Stealing

Awards:

9 wins & 24 nominations

Cast

Nanni Moretti	...	Giovanni
Laura Morante	...	Paola
Jasmine Trinca	...	Irene
Giuseppe Sanfelice	...	Andrea
Sofia Vigliar	...	Arianna
Renato Scarpa	...	Headmaster
Roberto Nobile	...	Priest
Paolo De Vita	...	Luciano's Father
Roberto De Francesco	...	Record Store Clerk
Claudio Santamaria	...	Dive Shop Clerk
Antonio Petrocelli	...	Enrico
Lorenzo Alessandri	...	Filippo's Father
Alessandro Infusini	...	Matteo
Silvia Bonucci	...	Carla
Marcello Bernacchini	...	Luciano
Alessandro Ascoli	...	Stefano
Stefano Abbati	...	The Patient
Stefano Accorsi	...	The Patient
Toni Bertorelli	...	The Patient (as Tonio Bertorelli)
Dario Cantarelli	...	The Patient
Eleonora Danco	...	The Patient
Claudia Della Seta	...	The Patient
Luisa De Santis	...	The Patient
Silvio Orlando	...	The Patient
Emanuele Lo Nardo	...	Filippo

Directed by
Nanni Moretti

Writing credits
Nanni Moretti		(story)
Nanni Moretti		(screenplay) &
Heidrun Schleef		(screenplay) &
Linda Ferri		(screenplay)

Produced by
Angelo Barbagallo	....	producer
Federico Fabrizio	....	producer
Vincenzo Galluzzo	....	producer
Lorenzo Luccarini	....	producer
Nanni Moretti	....	producer

Original Music by
Nicola Piovani

Cinematography by
Giuseppe Lanci

Film Editing by
Esmeralda Calabria

Production Design by
Giancarlo Basili

Costume Design by
Maria Rita Barbera

Makeup Department
Carlo Barucci	....	hair stylist
Gianfranco Mecacci	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Fabrizio Amato	....	unit manager
Gianfranco Barbagallo	....	production manager
Chrystelle Robin	....	unit manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Loredana Conte	....	assistant director
Andrea Molaioli	....	assistant director

Art Department
Alberto Bonvecchi	....	assistant property master
Roberto DiCamillo	....	buyer
Roberto Giacomelli	....	property master
Giuseppe Gigante	....	assistant property master
Ermanno Sampaolesi	....	assistant property master
Mauro Venturini	....	property master
Piera Zaganelli	....	assistant set decorator

Sound Department
Angelo Amatulli	....	boom operator
Damiano Antinori	....	sound assistant
Benni Atria	....	sound editor
Francesca Genevois	....	assistant sound editor
Danilo Moroni	....	sound mixer
Alessandro Zanon	....	sound

Visual Effects by
Stefano Ballirano	....	senior digital artist

Camera and Electrical Department
Roberta Allegrini	....	camera operator
Massimo Barbona	....	key grip
Roberto Barbona	....	grip
Simone Barbona	....	grip
Mauro Belli	....	electrician
Roberto Belli	....	gaffer
Leonardo Beltrame	....	electrician
Romualdo Benedetti	....	electrician
Franco Bruni	....	camera operator
Giovanni Canevari	....	Steadicam operator
Alessandro Cardelli	....	electrician
Andrea Collepiccolo	....	assistant camera
Federico Conte	....	electrician
Claudio Gallicchio	....	electrician
Simone Gambini	....	video assist operator
Giovanni Gebbia	....	Steadicam operator
Umberto Montiroli	....	still photographer
Eleonora Patriarca	....	second assistant camera
Roberto Quercetti	....	grip

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Gaia Calderone	....	assistant costumes
Alberta Ceccarelli	....	wardrobe
Germana Melodia	....	assistant costumes

Editorial Department
Pasquale Cuzzupoli	....	color supervisor
Roberto Martucci	....	assistant editor
Angelo Mignogna	....	assistant editor
Carlo Simeoni	....	assistant editor

Music Department
Angelo Giovagnoli	....	orchestra coordinator
Dieter Moebius	....	composer: song "By This River"
Hans-Joachim Roedelius	....	composer: song "By This River"
Fabio Venturi	....	music scoring engineer

Other crew
Cinzia Castania	....	script
Paolo Centore	....	production secretary
Bruno Di Bartolomei	....	production accountant
Crisilde Dominici	....	press agent
Federico Fabrizio	....	production secretary
Vincenzo Galluzzo	....	production secretary
Lorenzo Luccarini	....	production secretary

Production Companies

• Rai Cinemafiction
• Telepiù
• Sacher Film
• Bac Films
• Canal+

Distributors

• Sacher Distribuzione (2001) (Italy) (theatrical)
• A-Film Distribution (2001) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Atlantis Entertainment (2002) (Czechoslovakia) (theatrical)
• Bac Films (2001) (France) (theatrical)
• Cinema Mondo (2001) (Finland) (theatrical)
• Europafilm AS (2002) (Norway) (theatrical)
• First Distributors (2001-2002) (Hong Kong) (theatrical)
• Miramax Films (2001-2002) (USA) (theatrical) (subtitled)
• Miramax Films (2002) (Canada) (theatrical) (subtitled)
• Momentum Pictures (2002) (UK) (theatrical)
• Prokino Filmverleih (2001) (Germany) (theatrical)
• Spentzos Films (2001) (Greece) (theatrical)
• United King Films (2001) (Israel) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros. (2002) (Argentina) (theatrical)
• Warner Sogefilms A.I.E. (2001) (Spain) (theatrical)
• A-Film Home Entertainment (2002) (Netherlands) (DVD) (VHS)
• Argentina Video Home (200?) (Argentina) (VHS)
• Canvas (2005) (Belgium) (TV)
• Miramax Home Entertainment (2002) (USA) (DVD)
• Momentum Pictures Home Entertainment (2003) (UK) (DVD)
• Pan Vision Oy (2002) (Finland) (DVD)
• Warner Home Video (2001) (Italy) (DVD)
• Warner Home Vídeo (Brazil) (DVD)
• Warner Home Vídeo (Brazil) (VHS)

Also Known As:

The Son's Room (International: English title) (UK) (USA)
Giovanni (Italy) (working title)
La chambre du fils (France)
La habitación del hijo (Argentina) (Peru) (Spain) [es]
O Quarto do Filho (Brazil) (Portugal) [pt]
Комната сына (Russia) [ru]
Camera fiului (Romania) [ro]
Das Zimmer meines Sohnes (Germany) [de]
Ett rum i våra hjärtan (Sweden) [sv]
La chambre du fils (Canada: French title) [fr]
Ogul odasi (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
Pojan huone (Finland) [fi]
Pokój syna (Poland) [pl]
Sønnens værelse (Denmark) [da]
To domatio tou yioy moy (Greece) [el]

MPAA:

Rated R for language and some sexuality.

Runtime:

99 min

Country:

Italy | France

Language:

Italian | Latin

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Portugal:M/12 | Italy:T | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Chile:TE | Finland:K-11 | France:U | Germany:12 | Hong Kong:IIB | Japan:PG-12 | Netherlands:AL | Norway:11 | Peru:PT | Singapore:NC-16 | South Korea:12 | Spain:13 | Sweden:7 | Switzerland:0 (canton of the Grisons) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Ancona, Marche, Italy

Company:

Rai Cinemafiction

Trivia:

Chosen by "Les Cahiers du cinéma" (France) as one of the 10 best pictures of 2001 (#09)

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Film Geek (2005)

Soundtrack:

Insieme a te non ci sto più

The fragility of human harmony

The theme is not original and has already been explored by many movie directors. The acclaimed polish director K. Kieslowsky, for instance, filmed all of Juliette Binoche`s angle shots in Trois Couleurs: bleu, like a mother and wife trying to live a normal life again after the car accident that has taken away her children and husband.

"La stanza dei figlio" is Nanni Moretti`s viewpoint over the same kind of suffering. A psychoanalyst lives in a small italian town. He appears to be a happy man, happily married and a father of two well behaved teenagers. He spends his days listening to complaints from his patients. But, the job is one thing, the family another thing far from mind games and existencial questions. Giovanni, the psychoanalyst has a comfortable and relaxed life. However, his young son dies while he was scuba-diving in the sea. The movie is about the impact of this fact in the life of Giovanni`s family, mainly affecting his own life. How would he be able to take care of other people`s souls if his own soul had been destroyed?

Nanni Moretti wrote, directed and played in this simple and sad movie that won the most important prize of the international cinema: Cannes. It is not an easy movie to watch, not so much because the screenplay, which is direct, hardly daring in terms of language. "The son`s bedroom" brings the audience to point of tears because of the authenticity in which the actors show their emotions and contradictions revealed to the naked eye, after a tragedy capable of changing people lives from one day to the next. It is a story about strong relationships and their delicated balance.

Those who are thinking of going to see this movie, should be open minded to receive all the reduced gestures on personalities portrayed in it. They are> looking for something which had been lost within themselves . This is a human tale about how much of us belongs to those people who we have met along our own ways.