U.S. sales company Shoreline will launch international sales at Berlin’s Efm on “Havana Kyrie,” a drama toplining iconic Italian actor Franco Nero (“Django Unchained”) as a down-on-his-luck Italian orchestra conductor, and featuring Ron Perlman (“Sons of Anarchy”) in a supporting role.
The Italian-language pic, which marks the first official co-production between Italy and Cuba, just had its U.S. premiere at the Los Angeles Italia Film Festival after world premiering in December at the Havana Film Festival.
Set mostly in Havana and partly in Southern Italy the tale, which aims to tug at the heartstrings, sees Nero playing a crabby aged Italian maestro with a wounded ego who reluctantly winds up in Havana to conduct the Cuban National Children’s Choir. Once there, he intersects with a son he fathered decades before. Perlman plays the now grown son’s surrogate father.
Nero, who came up with idea in...
The Italian-language pic, which marks the first official co-production between Italy and Cuba, just had its U.S. premiere at the Los Angeles Italia Film Festival after world premiering in December at the Havana Film Festival.
Set mostly in Havana and partly in Southern Italy the tale, which aims to tug at the heartstrings, sees Nero playing a crabby aged Italian maestro with a wounded ego who reluctantly winds up in Havana to conduct the Cuban National Children’s Choir. Once there, he intersects with a son he fathered decades before. Perlman plays the now grown son’s surrogate father.
Nero, who came up with idea in...
- 2/7/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
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