Massimo Troisi Trailer: Paolo Sorrentino & Michael Radford Recall ‘Il Postino’ Star In Berlinale Doc ‘Somebody Down There Likes Me’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Italian director Mario Martone, who has enjoyed prominence on the festival awards circuit over the past year with Oscar submission and Cannes title Nostalgia, is at the Berlinale this year with his passion project Somebody Down There Likes Me.
The documentary pays tribute to late Italian actor and fellow Neapolitan Massimo Troisi who died tragically young at the age of 41 in 1994, just hours after coming off the shoot of Michael Radford’s Il Postino (The Postman).
Selected for the Berlinale Specials sidebar, the documentary plays at a sold-out screening on Saturday, on the eve of what would have been the actor’s 70th birthday on February 19.
Deadline can reveal a trailer. Martone says he wants to shed light on the popular actor who he believes has never been properly celebrated. “Massimo has always remained alive in the collective consciousness because he was a great actor and a great artist,” says the director.
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