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DATA |
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titles |
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Roundtrip
Körutazas
Dus-Întors
Da Nessuna
Parte (From Nowhere) - working title
To Nowhere - working title according to Kabir
'A/R Andata+ritorno' means 'return, roundtrip (ticket)'
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| catch
phrases |
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The film A/R Andata+Ritorno is dedicated to Curt Cobain (1967-1994). |
| release
category |
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big-screen-movie |
| genre |
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bittersweet
comedy |
| length |
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106
minutes |
| release
dates |
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Italy - April 2, 2004 |
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| PRODUCTION |
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| country
of production |
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Italy |
| production |
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Harold
& Motion, Rai Cinema, Mikado Film, Film Commission Torino Piemonte |
| executive
producer |
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Valter
Buccino (executive producer), Roberto
Buttafarro |
| screenplay |
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Marco
Ponti (also dialogue) |
| music |
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MUSIC:
Motel Connection sito
ufficiale
LYRICS: Enrico Rommert and Motel Connection
SINGERS: Doctor Jazz's Universal, Enrico Caruso, Faccia di Cane,
Jan Rap, Blaugrana, Wah Companion, U-Matic, Tony Kinsey, Rachid,
Nathalie Tanner, Britta Phillips and Dean Wareham, Modarte, The
Art of Zapping, Elvis Presley, Moivo, Giovanni Carretta Pontone,
Gatto Ciliega Contre il Grande Freddo, Bing Crosby and The Andrew
Sisters, Sur, A Camp, Pertubazione, D'N'D, Margaret, DayByDay,
Verlaine, Cletus
TITLES:
'First man than machine' Doctor Jazz's Universal
'No, pagliaccio non son' Enrico Caruso
'Llapololita' Faccia di Cane
'South Sea Loving' Jan Rap
'Il Male' Blaugrana
'Cindy 76' Wah Companion
'Da nessuna parte' U-Matic
'We wish you a Merry Christmas' (trad.) Tony Kinsey
'La notte sul fiume' Rachid
'Everything will change' Nathalie Tanner
'Your Baby' Britta Phillips and Dean Wareham
'A Samba'
Nathalie Tanner
'Sogni' Modarte
'Rollercoaster' The Art of Zapping
'Senza terra' Rachid
'Silent Night' Elvis Presley
'Piano piano dolcemente' Nathalie Tanner
'Bravenewstar' The Art of Zapping
'La mia generazione' Moivo
'Ave Maria, String Quartet' Franz Schubert (arr. Kelly Richmond)
'Apri la tua finestra' Enrico Caruso
'Sixtyseven' Faccia di Cane
'Tout va bien' Nathalie Tanner
'Lettera a pinocchio' Giovanni Carretta Pontone
'La dernière nuit' Nathalie Tanner
'Frozen Coffee' Gatto Ciliegia Contre il Grande Freddo
'Au Revoir' Nathalie Tanner
'Bel Danubio Valzer op.314' Johann Strauss jun. (arr. Architorti)
'Jingle Bells'
(trad.) Bing Crosby and The Andrew Sisters
'Oblivion' Sur
'Frequent Flyer' A Camp
'Cannibal' Wah Companion
'La Rosa del 20' Pertubazione
'Strizzacervelli' D'N'D
'Esprimi un desiderio' Margaret
'LoveFailure' DayByDay
'Una speranza pallida' Verlaine
'Tu godu' Cletus
soundtrack: CD Mescal, Italy |
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| costume
design |
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Alessandro
Lai |
| photography |
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Marcello
Montarsi |
| special
effects |
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Alessandro
Rizzuti |
| stunts |
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Seals |
| edition |
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Walter
Fasano |
| distribution |
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01
Rai Cinema & Studio Canal Distribution |
| filming
location |
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Torino,
Italy - including Starhotel Majestic and Museo Egi
Milan, Italy
Rome, Italy
Barcelona,
Spain |
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| DIRECTOR |
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Marco
Ponti |
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| CAST |
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Libero
De Rienzo (Dante Cruciani)
Vanessa Incontrada(Nina 'Nefertiti' de la Serna,
Spanish air hostess)
Remo Girone (Dante's father)
Ugo Conti (man in white)
Massimo De Santis (Mohammed, Dante's brother)
Michele Di Mauro (Skorpio)
Giuseppe Lo Console (Stampella)
Fabio Troiano (Smeg)
Giovanni Carretta Pontone (taxi driver)
Eugenio Allegri (Father Christmas)
Vanessa Compagnucci (Louise)
Maconda Dezardelle (Mugabi, Dante's friend)
Mao Gurlino (Grand Hotel receptionist)
Renzo Lori (concierge)
Vito Miccolis (Celia's husband)
Luca Morino (Jordi, Nina's (ex-)boyfriend)
Simona Nasi (blonde woman, girlfriend of man in white)
Esther Ortega (Celia, Nina's pregnant friend)
Germana Pasquero (Number One)
Souad Reggadi (Nur, Mohammed's wife)
Mandala Tayde (waitress in Bar Pinotxo, Barcelona)
Hairi Vogel (Jean-Luc, Dante's friend) |
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| SUMMARY |
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It's
Christmas in the land of Silvio Berlusconi.
In the
northern city of Turin, young Dante Cruciani (Libero De Rienzo)
earns his living as a lightning fast bike courier.
Apart from being the star employee of the company Time Machine,
he moonlights as a slightly unorthodox Santa.
His father, an acknowledged
expert in opening safety deposit boxes, is in jail. Dante's
brother Mohammed runs a lively trade
in items that have fallen off the back of a lorry. After getting
into a spot of trouble himself, Dante is keen to book a one-way
journey out of Turin as a matter of some urgency. But he is in
rather less of a hurry to pay back the loan sharks who have helped
him pay for his plane ticket...
Surprisingly, Dante actually arrives
at the first stop of his journey around the world - Barcelona!
But the mysterious appearance of a bag of white powder in Dante's
luggage meets with the displeasure of Spanish customs. After
spending a brief time in jail in the company of a Spanish Santa,
now penniless Dante returns by train to Turin, where a man in
a neck collar and his lugubrious friends eagerly await his arrival.
Nina de la Serna (Vanessa Incontrada), a little coy about her
real name Nefertiti, is a pert Spanish stewardess living mostly
with her head in the clouds and is losing interest fast in her
unfaithful nearly-ex-boyfriend. Constrained by an Italian general
strike to keep her feet on the ground, she goes hunting for a
place to spend the night in Turin.
This is not an easy task given that all available hotel rooms
are booked by other stranded travellers. But to her good fortune
she runs into Tolstoy (Kabir Bedi),
the bell boy of the Grand Hotel, Dante's avuncular friend and
the devoted carer of his
goldfish, which has been widowed in an appalling act of murder.
Chief
among the rag-tag band of brothers that surrounds Dante, Tolstoy
rarely takes no for an answer. He knows what life has
in store for him, and what's more, he knows Curt Cobain!
Put up
by Tolstoy in the apartment of the absent Dante, Nina is to become
deeply involved in her host's life, help him with
his far-fetched plans, fall madly in love with him, seduce him,
and generally turn his already unpredictable existence upside
down.
In true romantic Christmas style, bad-boy biker meets airline
angel in a tale of love, crime and refreshingly non-Hollywood
sex!
In an
interview in March 2004, Kabir describes
the movie as "a modern-day love story between a vagabond
and an air hostess." |
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MORE
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| KABIR
BEDI DETAILS |
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| Kabir's
part |
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Kabir is
playing the part of 'Tolstoj', a bell boy at the 'Grand Hotel',
a hotel in a Northern Italian town.
Kabir about his part:"I play the character of a hotel
porter called Tolstoj, who is like a father-figure to this ragged
band
and
helps them in solving their problems." |
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| Kabir's
showstopper |
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"My Italian fans are used to
seeing me play the hero, but in the Ponti-movie I'm quite an ordinary
man, a stranger who lives in a group of individualists,
almost
on the edge of legality," said Kabir in
an Italian interview on December 28, 2003 on
Capri. |
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| tv
broadcasts |
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want to
see Kabir in it?
check TV listings of Kabir's work - current/archives |
| not
to be confused with |
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...Luis
Sepúlveda's
Italian/Spanish movie from 2001 called 'Nowhere' - with an entirely
different storyline; about people escaping
a Latin-American military dictatorship, Harvey
Keitel and Angela Molina star, among others. |
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HIT!
yum! |
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A Christmas
fairy tale full of lively but somewhat dodgy characters, filmed
with great love for detail. A band of lovable rogues, including
Kabir in one of his best character parts, come to the rescue
of a young man in need and bring the story to a happy end with
love and money aplenty. |
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MISS!
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| IN
SHORT... |
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In
true romantic Christmas style, bad-boy biker meets airline
angel in a tale of love, crime and refreshingly non-Hollywood
sex! |
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| discussion |
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discuss
this movie with others |
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| KABIR
BEDI PICTURES |
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| Kabir
stills |
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movie
picture galleries |
| reviews
w/ Kabir pix |
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links w/ Kabir pix |
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Kabir
Bedi ritorna e sarà ancora Sandokan Alto Adige edition Kabir PICTURE
(same content)
Kabir
Bedi ritorna e sarà ancora Sandokan Trentino edition Kabir PICTURE |
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| LINKS |
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| official
website |
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A/R
- ANDATA+RITORNO |
| video
trailers |
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• Kataweb.it cast
bios, cast pictures, trailer |
BUY
THIS KABIR BEDI MOVIE!
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A/R
ANDATA+RITORNO [DVD] available to buy online at DVD.it
Audio Format: Dolby Digital 5.1
DVD Area Code: 2
Extras:
Subtitles, incl. English, Backstage, Deleted Scenes, Special Effects,
Trailers, Promotion-material, Filmo-/Biography of cast/crew, picture gallery.
Our tip for all Kabir Bedi/Sandokan fans:
DVD.it sells many other Kabir Bedi movies, including Sandokan, Noi Siamo
Angeli etc, and even an animated version of Il Corsaro Nero!
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| reviews |
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Roundtrip...resourceful,
calming Tolstoj, played... by Kabir Bedi |
| other
related links |
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Saverio
Ferragina A/R press agency
Motel Connection sito
ufficiale
PRODUCTION
• September 29, 2003 Kabir
Bedi ritorna e sarà ancora Sandokan Kabir PICTURE
• September 28, 2003 Cinema:
Kabir Bedi sara' di nuovo Sandokan, ma in Sicilia
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September 11, 2003 72
produzioni in tre anni
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August 8, 2003 Da
Nessuna Parte
• June 24, 2003 Divento
hostess per Marco Ponti
• June 23, 2003 Storia
d'amore tra Incontrada e De Rienzo
• June 6, 2003 Ponti,
aspettando il primo ciak
• Da
Nessuna Parte
STARS
• Libero
De Rienzo imdb.com
• Libero
De Rienzo filmography
• Ora
racconto un incesto 'normale' Libero De Rienzo interview
• Vanessa Incontrada Homepage
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Vanessa
Incontrada filmography/information
• Vanessa
Incontrada imdb.com
• Vanessa
Incontrada links to pictures
• Vanessa
Incontrada - da modella a presentatrice biography/links
• Marco
Ponti
• Marco Ponti imdb.com
• vita
di Marco Ponti
• Talent
Campus: Marco Ponti alla Berlinale Ponti attends the film festival Berlinale,
Germany (February
10-14,
2003), where his success movie
Santa Maradona is shown |
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| INFORMATION -
QUICK BITS |
| • Right from the start, Kabir
talks enthousiastically about this
project:"Marco Ponti is the brilliant young director
of the movie." |
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| INFORMATION -
GENERAL INFORMATION |
• Some quotes by Kabir from the movie:
• Kabir, his very first
words,
to Dante: "How's the coffee?"
• Kabir: "Love doesn't
exist!" - Nina replies: "That's why we make it!"
• Kabir: "Go see what
there is to see!"
• Kabir: "All blue,
like the sea!"
• Kabir: "My back's
going bad, my mind's losing it. Long-term memory is okay, but my short-term
one is giving out."
• Kabir: "Tons of caviar!"
• Kabir: "Don't worry,
your ass is in good hands!"
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A few other remarkable quotes from the movie:
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"Life is a storm and getting screwed is just a little
lightning!"
• "This discount Santa is going home!"
• "Don't you trust Santa?"
• "Go anywhere but Switzerland and especially not
Berne!"
• "Did you bring a tranquillizer?"
• A/R
is set in the northern Italian city of Turin, where director
Marco Ponti often sets his movies, as he knows his home
city well and considers it more interesting than Rome.
Ponti says: "Turin is a contradiction. It is a severe
northern town but at the same time it has a warm, southern
temperament." In Rome, what you see is what you get,
but Turin is secretive and full of mysterious, surreal
places, he says. |
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| INFORMATION -
PEOPLE |
• For the first time
Kabir will
be shooting a film directly in Italian.
• Gemma Graziani Vesey was Kabir's dialogue/language-coach
during filming.
• Federico Mazzi was Kabir's driver
during filming.
• Mandala Tayde, who played in
Ponti's award-winning movie Santa Maradona,
appears in this film as well. Mandala is
known to many
Sandokan fans
as the lovely 'Dora', the female lead in Kabir's TV
mini-series IL
RITORNO DI SANDOKAN/THE RETURN OF SANDOKAN (please
see also further below).
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Marco Ponti is a young director born on July 25, 1967 in
Avigliana near Turin.
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At only 33 years of age, Marco Ponti is also a professor
of scriptwriting/media studies at the experimental Holden
School in Turin.
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He is not related to film producer Edoardo Ponti, Sophia
Loren's husband.
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Marco Ponti did a commercial for Telecom Italia in 2002,
with popular flamenco dancer Joaquim Cortez in the lead role.
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Marco Ponti is part of the new wave of the Italian cinema.
After his early short fims won a number of awards, he won
widespread recognition with the successful comedy Santa
Maradona (2001), for which he also
wrote the script. This film is also set in Turin, and is
about two young graduates sharing
a bachelor pad. The landlord frequently threatens to evict
them, not in the least because they use the concrete floor
to play ball games and smash up the furniture. Their many
attempts to get regular work are usually torpedoed at the
first, and
very surreal, interview, and our men behaving badly fill
their days with endless silly discussions about literature,
women, sex and other interesting issues. One of the two then
falls in love with the stunningly beautiful actress and teacher
Dolores, but later abandons his new-found love to go in
search of his own identity. In this bittersweet comedy, Marco
Ponti shows the world of two young Italian men taking their first
steps into the real world after leaving the relative protection
of their student environment.
Marco Ponti's film was a great success inside and outside
Italy and won many awards, including "best new director" in
the Italian Oscars™.
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The 25-year-old lead actor in Kabir's
A/R,
Libero De Rienzo, played the aspiring literary
critic Bart, one
of the two main roles in Marco Ponti's Santa
Maradona (2001).
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Libero De Rienzo is often called 'Picchio', his pet name
in Santa Maradona.
• Libero De Rienzo is born in Napoli
but lives in Rome.
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Libero De Rienzo saw his first movie set at age four - his
father was a second director working under Citto Maselli.
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Libero De Rienzo's excellent performance
in Santa Maradona won him a 'David di Donatello', also known
as the 'Italian
Oscar™ '.
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Libero De Rienzo also loves the stage.
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Libero De Rienzo plays 'Dr. Innocenti' in
My House in Umbria (2003), alongside the great actress
Dame Maggie Smith.
•
Vanessa Incontrada plays the female part
in Kabir's film. In June 2003, her performance as a "new
talent" won
her an Italian award, the 'premio Giuseppe De Sanctis'.
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Stunning Vanessa Incontrada is of
Italian-Spanish origin and was born in Barcelona in 1978. She
describes herself as "an Italian girl with a dash of Spanish
passion".
• Julia
Roberts and Juliette Binoche are Vanessa's models of
feminity and beauty.
• Vanessa Incontrada has been described
as "the bubbliest redhead on TV"! She is the co-presenter
of the weekly TV show 'Zelig Circus' on Italy's Canale 5
which attracts 8 million viewers every Friday.
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Vanessa Incontrada really wanted to become a psychologist.
• Vanessa Incontrada says she can
make a very decent Tiramisu.
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At age 17, Vanessa Incontrada began the nomadic life of a
successful model, travelling the world for two years.
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Italian director Pupi Avati discovered Vanessa Incontrada when
she appeared in a mobile phone commercial.
•
Kabir's co-star
in IL RITORNO DI
SANDOKAN (1996), Mandala
Tayde, played Lucia, one of the female leads
in Marco
Ponti's
comedy Santa
Maradona (2001). Just for her, Ponti created
a role with an Indian-Italian background. In the movie, Lucia
has an Indian mother and a father from Naples. In fact, Mandala
Tayde was born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1975.
Check out the TV section for
TV broadcasts with Mandala Tayde, other Sandokan co-stars,
Sandokan TV listings and several
1000 - new and old - Kabir TV
listings worldwide.
For pictures and information about Kabir's Sandokan films
see the SANDOKAN section.
• Motel Connection also composed the
soundtrack for Marco Ponti's
Santa Maradona. |
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| INFORMATION -
PRODUCTION DIARY |
»September 20, 2002 - Marco Ponti's new project is mentioned on the Italian website
tamtamcinema.
»January 10, 2003 - Libero De Rienzo, who will play the lead role in the movie,
says in an Italian interview that actual filming is scheduled to start in the
spring of 2003.
»June 6, 2003 - If all goes well, the film will be released in early 2004.
»June 23, 2003 - Co-star Vanessa Incontrada talks about the movie in an
Italian interview. Filming will start in September 2003 and is scheduled to last
nine
weeks.
»Early August, 2003 - Kabir speaks for the first time
- and exclusively for his official website - about his own part in this new Italian
film. He is
very excited
by the new project, one of about 15 movies that Kabir is working on this season.
He says the film is still in pre-production and is looking forward to filming
with its young Italian director. Shooting is expected to begin in September 2003
and last into the autumn. In between, Kabir has other commitments in India and
Europe. So far, very little is publicly known about this project -- see also
the
LINKS section above.
»August 7, 2003 - kabir-bedi.com has a worldwide exclusive
report about
Kabir's
work on the film.
»August 8, 2003 - As shooting has not yet started, the film is still listed
as
being in pre-production, also by Italian movie websites.
»September 8, 2003 - The first phase of the seven weeks
of shooting
begins today in Italy, with Kabir taking
part. Many sources still list the premiere
as scheduled
for 2003.
»September 16, 2003 - Kabir interrupts shooting for another commitment
in London,
after which he returns to the set in Italy.
»September 28, 2003 - Kabir,
the guest of honour at a party by the famous Indian fashion designer Tarun Tahiliani,
again speaks of
his two Italian projects,
SANDOKAN IN SICILY and Da
Nessuna Parte (working title).
Tarun
Tahiliani
is an old friend of the Bedis, and designed the wedding dress of Kabir's
wife,
Nikki, as well as that of British
socialite Jemina Khan. He also worked for top models like Naomi Campbell.
At
the party, which is part of the Namaste India event at the Milan Fashion Week
(September 27-October 5, 2003), Kabir announces
for the first time that he will be playing the role of a Grand Hotel porter in
Ponti's film. In another first,
Kabir's dialogues will be directly
in Italian, although the movie is also to
be dubbed into English. Kabir will
still need to interrupt shooting because of
other
commitments. He recently told kabir-bedi.com in an exclusive that he will be
filming again for another project in India in October, MAIN
HOON NA, together
with Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan. In all Kabir will
be working on six
separate
projects
in October
and November! Also in the interview, "smiling Sandokan" Kabir said
how pleased he is that Bollywood is emerging from its long isolation in the international
movie scene and how his "beloved India" is now playing a role on the
world entertainment market.
»November 10, 2003 - Today is the last day of shooting,
the film will now move into post-production.
»December 2003 - The movie's title has been changed. Director Marco Ponti's
finished film is to be called 'A/R Andata+ritorno' and is scheduled to premiere
in February
2004.
»December 4, 2003 - Vanessa Incontrada promotes A/R at
the conference 'Pronti, quasi pronti' at the 'Giornate Professionali di Cinema'
in Sorrento.
»December 19, 2003 - Italian press agency
ANSA
mentions today March 12, 2004 as the date of release.
»December 28, 2003 - Kabir holds a press conference at
the Capri Congress
Center
at 5.30 pm, speaking about his role in Marco Ponti's film. He again confirms
the premiere date as February 2004.
»Early January 2004 - Kabir and Italian news agencies separately give
March 12,
2004 as the cinema premiere.
»February 18, 2004 - Post-production is taking longer
than expected. The
premiere
is now set for April 2, 2004!
»March 27, 2004 - Kabir is
in Rome to promote his forthcoming movie A/R. He also speaks at a press conference
about A/R, together
with
his
co-stars
Vanessa
Incontrada and Remo Girone.
»April 2, 2004 - The premiere in Italian cinemas is a
great
success!
- The film has "quick dialogue" and "quirky humour".
»April 4, 2004 - Film industry paper Daily Variety writes
in its A/R review about Kabir Bedi:
"... Chief among the latter is the resourceful, calming Tolstoj, played
with screen-enveloping warmth by veteran international thesp Kabir
Bedi."
»April 18, 2004 - Film TV Magazine reports
an audience of 363.585 for the release week, the movie is #9 on the Italian
cinema list - and moving up.
»November 12-18, 2004 - A/R titled 'Roundtrip' is shown
several
times
at the NICE Festival in New York, USA.
»November 14-21, 2004 -
A/R aka 'Roundtrip' is also shown several times on the West
Coast, at the NICE Festival in San Francisco, USA. |
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