The Star Maker (1995 film)

L'uomo delle stelle
(The Star Maker)
L'uomo delle stelle; (The Star Maker)
	Film poster
Directed by	Giuseppe Tornatore
Written by	Fabio Rinaudo; Giuseppe Tornatore
Produced by	Rita Cecchi Gori; Vittorio Cecchi Gori
Starring	Sergio Castellitto; Tiziana Lodato;
Music by	Ennio Morricone
Production; companies	Cecchi Gori Group; RAI-Radiotelevisione Italiana
Distributed by	Cecchi Gori Distribuzione
Release dates	7 September 1995 (Venice Film Festival); 22 September 1995 (Italy);
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 won the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.^[2]

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 in reality he is a fraud. He meets several people who express their deepest feelings and secrets in front of the camera. At one of his stops he meets a young girl, Beata, a convent girl who becomes attached to him despite his protestations.

Joe and Beata's relationship gradually evolves into a romantic one, when he's exposed as a fraud, beaten, and arrested. After serving his prison term, Joe comes back to seek Beata, but finds her in a mentally disturbed state assuming Joe died. Pretending to be Joe's friend, he conveys to her a message that she was the love of his life, and promises he shall come back with money and take care of her.

Cast[]

Sergio Castellitto as Joe Morelli (Giuseppe Romolo)
Tiziana Lodato as Beata
Leopoldo Trieste as The Mute
Leo Gullotta as Vito
as Brigadiere Mastropaolo
as The Prince
Jane Alexander as The Princess
as Anna's Mother
Tony Sperandeo as Primo Badalamenti
Tano Cimarosa as Bordanaro

Release[]

Following its success at the Venice Film Festival, the film was released on 22 September 1995 in Italy, grossing $371,000 in its opening weekend from 49 screens in Italy's key cities.^[3]^[4]

References[]

^ "L'uomo delle stelle (1995)". Archivio del Cinema Italiano. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
^ "The 68th Academy Awards (1996) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
^ Groves, Don (2 October 1995). "O'seas auds boost B.O. of U.S. pix". Variety. p. 32.
^ "International box office". Variety. 2 October 1995. p. 32.

External links[]

The Star Maker at IMDb

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[1] "L'uomo delle stelle (1995)". Archivio del Cinema Italiano. Retrieved 3 November 2021.

[Oscars1996-2] "The 68th Academy Awards (1996) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 4 October 2015.

[3] Groves, Don (2 October 1995). "O'seas auds boost B.O. of U.S. pix". Variety. p. 32.

[4] "International box office". Variety. 2 October 1995. p. 32.

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