Human Capital
Filmfest 2014
(IL CAPITALE UMANO)
France, Italy 2013
Original version with English subtitles
(Original: Italian)
German Premiere
Director: Paolo Virzì
Section: Spotlight
We open on a dark, snowy night in northern Italy – and begin at the end. Approaching a stranger's tragic death from three vastly different perspectives, the lives of two families, at first only loosely linked by their teenagers' relationship, overlap in multitudinous ways to devastating effect. Valeria Golino and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, two of Italy's leading actresses, star in a story based on Stephen Amidon's best-selling book of the same name that twists love, class, and ambition into a singular, true-life story. As the players tumble toward an ill-fated event of which they are inextricably linked, Paolo Virzì's refined three-chapter tale reveals a cultural and systemic disparity in the value of human life.
Liza Domnitz, Tribeca Film Festival
Cast: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Valeria Golino, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Fabrizio Gifuni, Luigi Lo Cascio
Credits
Screenplay: Francesco Bruni, Francesco Piccolo, Paolo Virzì, Original von/ by: Stephen Amidon
Director of Photography: Jérôme Alméras
Film Editor: Cecilia Zanuso
Composer: Carlo Virzi
Production Designer: Mauro Radaelli
Costume Design: Bettina Pontiggia
Sound: Roberto Mozarelli
Producer: Fabrizio Donvito
Co-Producer: Philippe Gompel
Production Company: Indiana Production Company
World Sales: Bac Films
Distributor: Movienet Film GmbH
Director: Paolo Virzì
