Venice: Sorrentino leads the charge of the Italians

(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 29 - There is an Italian squadron protagonist in Venice 78 (1-11 September), a record participation with five films in competition and many in selection and other sections, from Orizzonti to the Giornate degli Autori, which well represent the new Italian cinema, from the generation of established directors such as the Oscar winner Paolo Sorrentino and Mario Martone to new talents, from the D'Innocenzo brothers to Gabriele Mainetti expected at the second test and then again the emerging ones such as Leonardo Di Costanzo, Laura Bispuri, StefanoMordini, Alessandro Gassman. Here is a guide of the Italians to the Mostra, starting with 5 for the Lion.

   IT WAS THE HAND OF GOD - Exactly 20 years after the first film Man in Più with Toni Servillo, Sorrentino brings to Venice an autobiographical tale of destiny and family, sport and cinema, love and loss in the story of Fabietto, a boy in Naples 80s. In the cast, alongside the protagonist / alter ego Filippo Scotti, a fantastic Toni Servillo, Teresa Saponangelo, Luisa Ranieri, Renato Carpentieri.

   HERE I RIDO IO - Mario Martone tells the life of the great comic actor and playwright from Naples in the early 1900s EduardoScarpetta played by Toni Servillo (who also has a third film, AriaFerma by Leonardo Di Costanzo).

   LATIN AMERICA - In the third film the D'Innocenzo twins conquer the competition. For the new film ("a love story, and like all love stories a thriller"), they again chose Elio Germano as the protagonist as the owner of a dental office in Latina.

   FREAKS OUT - It is the new ambitious film by Gabriele Mainetti who with the first work They called him Jeeg Robot gave a shock to the Italian cinema. Find Claudio Santamaria in the cast. The adventure and training film tells a story "in the occupied Rome of 1943 with four unique and unrepeatable freaks, protagonists of a bigger story than them".

   THE HOLE - After 11 years it is MichelangeloFrammartino's return to cinema. In August 1961 a group of young Piedmontese speleologists discovered at a depth of just under 700 meters one of the deepest caves in the world, the Abyssodel Bifurto of the Pollino plateau, under the gaze of shepherds. (HANDLE).