Silvio Soldini and « The Tasters »: at the top of the collections, sold in 50 countries
The film about Hitler’s guinea pigs from Rosella Postorino’s novel has become a coincidence. The director: « It doesn’t seem like an Italian job. » The Christian producer Mainardi: « At the beginning the ministry denied us the loan ».
TastingsSilvio Soldini’s film, is a coincidence. In ten days the collections say: 1 million 423 thousand euros, with 211 thousand appearances. Vision has increased the rooms to 473, for 10 percent it is projected into the German original, sold in over 50 countries. A film about the effects of war, on the female body, on the tastings that in 1943, in the stronghold of the Lupo’s den, became Hitler’s guinea pigs, facing the possible death, where the rhythms of the meals were dictated by the boots of the SS.
All anomalous. The real protagonist, Margot Wölk, revealed what he had experienced only innel 2012. He said: . The novel by Rosella Postorino, Calabrian who grew up in Liguria, was born from a German story. And it doesn’t look like an Italian film. Soldini, are you pleased to hear it to tell you? «A little yes, the cinema that prompted me to do this job is above all German and French. I never thought of making a movie from that book ».
The stylistic rigor and female sensitivity, the vintage faces, « one of the tastings asked me to be able to wear a sweater by his grandmother, praise him. I didn’t expect success, because there are no famous actresses, and they are not Italian. I chose them for their skill, for their looks, they are bearers of a truth and a horror, even if they have not lived them directly ».
The story of a brave woman, alone, full of contradictions, who has the strength to go on and falls in love with a Nazi officer while her husband is at war, thinking he is dead. And in the barn there are only two young people looking for pleasure. «As we spinned, the world moved to the story of the film. When Hitler invokes the divine providence and investiture after the attack, the same things said from Trump after the attack he suffered ».
It wasn’t a walk. Product (with Anteo) by Lionello Cerri and Cristiana Mainardi reminiscent of the crossbar: «We took the rights of the novel in 2018, before he wins The Campiello and became a best seller. We had to change locationbecause the village near the Lupo’s den, in Polish territory, with the war in Ukraine is considered at risk. We went to Belgium, having the same latitude and vegetation. And at first the ministry denied the loan (same session as No to Paola Cortellesi), not considering it of national interest. Then we got it. All beautiful, but what effort ». Valerio Cappelli
