In recent years, director Alice Rohrwacher has proven to be one of the greatest talents in Italy. She wrote this dreamy story about a family living on a remote farm and keeping bees based on her experiences as a young German-Italian. Wolfgang, the crude father (Sam Louwyck), hopes that his eldest daughter Gelsomina will one day carry on the beekeeping business in the same small-scale way.
Their cheerful, chaotic life is put under pressure when the family is asked to take part in a competition to win a role in a TV commercial. Wolfgang doesn’t like the attention, but for the rest of the family this is a comical diversion from their dull country life. For the first time, young Gelsomina finds out that her desires are different from her father’s.
A dreamy, delicate and loving portrait of a family trying to live in its own way, in spite of encroachment from the outside world.
With Big Talk on Sun 25-1 in the theatre of Oude Luxor.
- Director
- Alice Rohrwacher
- Countries of production
- Italy, Switzerland, Germany
- Year
- 2014
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2015
- Length
- 111'
- Medium
- DCP
- International title
- The Wonders
- Languages
- Italian, French, German
- Producers
- Carlo Cresto-Dina, Karl Baumgartner, Tiziana Soudani, Michael Weber, Gabriella de Gara, Sven Waelti, Burkhard Althoff, Doris Hepp
- Production Companies
- tempesta srl, Rai Cinema, Pola Pandora Film, Amka Films Productions, The Match Factory GmbH, RSI Radiotelevisione Svizerra, SRG SSR, ZDF - Das kleine Fernsehspiel, ZDF / ARTE
- Sales
- The Match Factory GmbH
- Screenplay
- Alice Rohrwacher
- Cinematography
- Hélène Louvart
- Editor
- Marco Spoletini
- Production Design
- Emita Frigato
- Sound Design
- Christophe Giovannoni
- Music
- Piero Crucitti
- Cast
- Alba Rohrwacher, Sabine Timoteo, Sam Louwyck
- Local Distributor
- Cinemien
- Website
- http://lemeraviglie.mymovies.it