The Star Maker (1995 film)

L'uomo delle stelle
(The Star Maker)

Film poster
Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore
Produced by Rita Cecchi Gori, Vittorio Cecchi Gori
Written by Fabio Rinaudo
Giuseppe Tornatore
Starring Sergio Castellitto
Tiziana Lodato
Franco Scaldati
Music by Ennio Morricone
Release dates
  • 9 November 1995 (1995-11-09)
Running time
113 minutes
Country Italy
Language Italian

The Star Maker (Italian: L'Uomo delle stelle) is a 1995 Italian film. It was produced by Rita Cecchi Gori, Vittorio Cecchi Gori, directed by Giuseppe Tornatore, while the title role was played by Sergio Castellitto. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.[1]

Plot

In 1953, Joe Morelli is traveling rural Sicily, offering to take screen tests of wannabe actors, for a fee. He claims to work for big Roman film studios, but he's a fraud. He meets several people who express their deepest feelings and secrets in front of the camera.In one of his stops he meets a young girl, Beata, who is a convent girl, she attaches to him, despite his protestation.

Their relation is evolving into a romantic one, when he's exposed, beaten and arrested. When, after serving his term, he comes back to seek Beata, he finds her mentally retarded assuming Joe's dead. Pretending as Joe's friend, he conveys her a message that she was the love of his life and promises he shall come back for her with money and shall take care of her.

Cast

Influence of Fellini

Many of Tornatore's films reflect the strong influence of Fellini. Indeed, L'Uomo delle Stelle contains elements of Fellini's 1955 Il Bidone (another film about despicable con men preying on the innocent southern peasantry) as well as Fellini's 1952 film Lo Sceicco Bianco (also about a desperate, impressionable young woman who becomes romantically infatuated with the figure of a male celebrity, and who is eventually driven insane by the inevitable shock of disillusionment).

See also

References

  1. "The 68th Academy Awards (1996) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 4 October 2015.

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