LUCIA’S GRACE
Filmfest 2018
PT: TROPPA GRAZIA
OT: TROPPA GRAZIA
Italy 2018
Original version with English subtitles
(Original: Italian)
German Premiere
Director: Gianni Zanasi
Section: Spotlight
Lucia, a single mother, does surveying work for a pretentious architecture firm in order to clear the way for an even more pretentious lighthouse project. There she meets another mother — the Virgin Mary — who has other plans: Lucia must build a church. (What else could it be?) Though it's probably hard to communicate this to the contracting entities, the saint remains tough as nails. At any rate, she was able, during the Cannes festival, to convince the Europa Cinemas association to award the film a Europa Cinemas Label for the best film from the continent.
Cast: Alba Rohrwacher, Elio Germano, Hadas Yaron, Guiseppe Battiston, Carlotta Natoli, Thomas Trabacchi
Credits
Screenplay: Gianni Zanasi, Giacomo Ciarrapico, Federica Pontremoli, Michele Pellegrini
Director of Photography: Vladan Radovic
Film Editor: Rita Rognoni, Gianni Zanasi
Composer: Niccolò Contessa
Production Designer: Massimiliano Sturiale
Costume Design: Olivia Bellini
Sound: Stefano Campus
Producer: Rita Rognoni, Beppe Caschetto
Production Company: Pupkin Production srl.
Co-Production Company: Rai Cinema Spa, Oplon Film, Strada Film, Smallfish Spain
World Sales: The Match Factory
Director: Gianni Zanasi
biography
Gianni Zanasi was born in Vignola, Italy, in 1965. While studying philosophy at the University of Bologna, he took a course in directing offered by Nanni Moretti and subsequently enrolled at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografica. His first feature film, NELLA MISCHIA, was invited to the 1995 Quinzaine des Réalisateurs at Cannes. The comedy DON'T THINK ABOUT IT, probably his best-known film, was shown at FILMFEST MÜNCHEN in 2008.
