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Blood Of My Blood

Italy / Switzerland / France, September 2015
FILM, Fiction, 100 min.

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directed by
Marco Bellocchio
Written by
Marco Bellocchio
Status
In distribution

Federico, a young priest, is summoned by the 17th Century Inquisition to a convent prison in the town of Bobbio. His mission is to coerce Sister Benedetta to confess that she has seduced and driven to death her previous confessor, Federico's brother. Benedetta must undergo three trials - water, fire and tears - to prove her innocence if she does not confess. Federico, too, falls under the spell of the hypnotic Benedetta… The present-day Bobbio prison is run-down and abandoned. Tax investigator Federico is helping a Russian millionaire buy the old ruin. But a secretive old man has been living there for years. He is only occasionally seen out at night, and is referred to as "The Count".

Federico, un giovane uomo d’armi, viene sedotto come il suo gemello prete da suor Benedetta che verrà condannata ad essere murata viva nelle antiche prigioni di Bobbio. Nello stesso luogo, secoli dopo, tornerà un altro Federico, sedicente ispettore ministeriale, che scoprirà che l’edificio è ancora abitato da un misterioso Conte, che vive solo di notte.

credits

World Premiere
September 2015
Original Version
Italian (english subtitles),  colour, DCP, 100 min.
Production
Kavac Film, RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera, RAI Cinema, IBC Movie, Amka Films Productions SA, Barbary Films
Producer
Simone Gattoni, Bepe Caschetto, Fabio Conversi, Tiziana Soudani, Gabriella de Gara
directed by
Marco Bellocchio
Written by
Marco Bellocchio
Cinemato­graphy
Daniele Ciprì
Editing
Francesca Calvelli, Claudio Misantoni
Sound Editing
Lilio Rosato
Sound Design
Christophe Giovannoni
Re-Recording Mix
Roberto Cappannelli
Music
Carlo Crivelli
Location Sound Mix
Christophe Giovannoni
Costumes
Daria Calvelli
Casting
Stefania De Santis

Cast

Roberto Herlitzka as Conte
Pier Giorgio Bellocchio as Federico
Lidiya Liberman as Benedetta
Fausto Russo Alesi as Cacciapuoti
Alba Rohrwacher as Maria Perletti
Federica Fracassi as Marta Perletti
Alberto Cracco as Inquisitore francescano
Bruno Cariello as Angelo
Toni Bertorelli as Dott. Cavanna
Filippo Timi as Il pazzo
Elena Bellocchio as Elena
Ivan Franek as Rikalkov
Patrizia Bettini as Moglie del conte
Sebastiano Filocamo as Padre Confessore
Alberto Bellocchio as Cardinal Federico Mai

World Sales / World Rights

World Sales
The Match Factory

Worldwide Distribution

Argentina
Mirada Distribution Distribution
Release date: 28.07.2016
Brazil
Fenix Filmes Distribution
Release date: 01.12.2016
France
Bellissima Films Distribution
Release date: 07.10.2015
Italy
01 Distribution Distribution
Release date: 09.09.2015
Switzerland
Filmcoopi Zürich AG Distribution
Release date: 17.09.2015

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