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Bella Martha (2001)
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Ratings: 7.2/10 from 4,912 users
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Reviews: 82 user | 58 critic | 28 from Metacritic.com When a headstrong chef takes charge of her equally stubborn 8-year-old niece, the tensions between them mount... until an Italian sous-chef arrives to lighten the mood. Director:Sandra NettelbeckWriter:Sandra Nettelbeck |
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Idil Üner | ... | |
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Herr Steinberg
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Frau Steinberg
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Diego Ribon | ... |
Giuseppe Lorenzo
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W.D. Sprenger | ... |
Noisy customer
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Victoria Trauttmansdorff | ... |
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Storyline
In a German restaurant, Chef Martha Klein is the undisputed supreme ruler of the kitchen staff and woe to any customer who would dare criticize her cooking. Her life is firmly centered around cooking which takes on a obsessive level with stubborn single mindedness. Even when she is ordered to take therapy, she still constantly talks about her work and the iron clad control she relishes in her task. All that changes when her sister dies in a car accident, leaving her 8 year old daughter, Lina. Martha takes her niece in and while making enquiries for her estranged father, she struggles to care for this stubbornly headstrong child. Meanwhile at work, a new chef named Mario is hired on and Martha feels threatened by this unorthodox intruder. The pressures of both her private and work life combine to create a situation that will fundamentally call her attitudes and life choices into question while these interlopers into her life begin to profoundly change it. Written by Kenneth Chisholm <kchishol@rogers.com>
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"Shiawase" wa, honno chotto no sajikagen [Japan] See more »Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
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(Germany) See more »Also Known As:
Mostly Martha See more »Box Office
Opening Weekend:
$40,446 (USA) (18 August 2002) (2 Screens)Gross:
$4,158,045 (USA) (19 January 2003)Company Credits
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1991 Capitol Records, Inc.
Written Roberts/Fisher-Citarrelly/Prima
Performed by Louis Prima
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Sergio Castellitto's German wasn't good enough so Frank Glaubrecht was brought in to dub his voice for the German version. See more »Goofs
Continuity: When Martha and Mario first kiss, he leans to the right with the left side of their noses touching. In the next shot he's leaning to the left. See more »Quotes
Mario: Why would she want to stay with her family in sunny Italy when she can return to cold and grey Germany to live there with a nut case like you?See more »
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"Angelina - Zooma Zooma (Medley)"1991 Capitol Records, Inc.
Written Roberts/Fisher-Citarrelly/Prima
Performed by Louis Prima
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