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Achab Film

Office at Cannes: Residences Grand Hotel - Bengali Entrance 2B

Tel: 04 93 39 75 32

Executives attending

Jeff Nuyts
Enzo Porcelli
First market attended: Mifed '97
Most films budgeted under $3 million
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Featured product

Prima la musica poi le parole (First the Music, then the Words) ¶ (Italy) Family drama. Dir: Fulvio Wetzl. Cast: Andrej Chalimon, Anna Bonaiuto, Jacques Perrin. A seven-year-old boy speaks a language that nobody is able to understand. 100 mins.
A Woman of the North (Italy) Period drama. Screening. Dir: Frans Weisz. Cast: Johanna Ter Steege, Massimo Ghini, Anthony Calf. In the late 19th century a Dutch woman falls madly in love with an Italian officer. 90 mins.
Vuoti a perdere ¶ (Italy) Drama. Dir: Massimo Costa. Cast: Giancarlo Giannini, Max Malatesta, Silvia de Santis. A bored police inspector interrogates a young couple after a car theft and makes them confess to a crime they might not have committed. 91 mins.
Tot- che visse due volte (Toto Who Lived Twice) (Italy) Satire. Screening. Dir: Daniele Cipri, Franco Maresco. Cast: S Gattuso, M Miranda. Wicked and wildly irreverent story set in a warped world, populated with oversexed down-and-outers, a hunchback, a fake angel and a false messiah. 95 mins.
Shakespea'reigns in Naples (Italy) Period drama. Pre-production. Dir: Ruggero Cappuccio. A fantasy about Shakespeare's secret Neapolitan loverboy, set in 16th-century Naples and London.
I Magi Randagi (We Free Kings) (Italy) Comedy. Screening. Dir: Sergio Citti. Cast: Silvio Orlando, Patrick Bauchau, Rolf Zacher. A trio of vagabond circus performers are recruited by a shady priest to play in a live Nativity scene. 100 mins.
Gills (Italy) Adventure. Post-production. Dir: Francesco Martinotti. Cast: Valentina Cervi, Gianluca Grignani. The surreal adventures of a terminally ill young man who refuses treatment and flees to India. 100 mins.
Straniere (Strangers) (Italy) Drama. Pre-production. Dir: Catherine McGilvray. Three young women living in different countries meet in Rome while looking for the same man.

Achab Film head office: Viale Gorizia 24 c, 00198 Rome, Italy

Tel: +39-06 85 47 230
Fax: +39-06 85 355 692
E-mail: jef.nuyts@iol.it