Italy’s True Colours Scores Slew of Berlin Sales on Toni Servillo’s ‘Strangeness,’ Gay Love Drama ‘Norwegian Dream’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comNick Vivarelli International Correspondent Italian sales company True Colours has closed a raft of sales following Berlin’s European Film Market.
Italy’s box office hit “La Stranezza” (“Strangeness”) got picked up for a dozen territories and queer romantic drama “Norwegian Dream” also sold widely, including to North America.
Directed by Roberto Andò, “Strangeness” (pictured) toplines Toni Servillo (“The Great Beauty”) as Nobel-prize-winning playwright Luigi Pirandello.
This tragicomic period piece about how Pirandello found inspiration to write his masterpiece “Six Characters in Search of an Author” has been a sleeper hit at the Italian box office, coming from nowhere to pull more than €5.5 million ($5.8 million) and becoming the local 2022 box office champ.
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