''Ricordare Anna'' is a 2004 Swiss German and Italian language

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

. It was filmed and produced at locations in Sicily and in Switzerland, and is starring

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and

Mathias Gnädinger Mathias Gnädinger (25 March 1941 – 3 April 2015) was a Swiss stage and film actor. Career Initially a typesetter and typographer, Gnädinger began his acting training at the ''Bühnenstudio Zürich'' (now part of the Zurich University of ...

Cast

as Anna Looser *

Giuseppe Cederna Giuseppe Cederna (born 25 June 1957) is an Italian actor and author. Life and career Born in Rome, the son of the journalist and politician Antonio Cederna and nephew of the writer and journalist Camilla Cederna, from his youth Cederna was at ...

as Padre * Jean-Pierre Cornu as Professor Schweizer * Tina Engel as Pastor * Hans-Joachim Frick as Senior civil servant *

as Viktor Looser * Urs Jucker as * Stefan Kollmuss as Doctor * Carla Mignosi as Giuseppina * Tanja Onorato as Daniela *

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as Salvo Marotta * Yves Raeber as Dr. Müller * Sebastian Rudolph as Frank * Suly Röthlisberger as Beth Looser * Margareta von Krauss as Olga Marotta

Plot (excerpt)

''Viktor Looser'' (Mathias Gnädinger) searches of forgiveness, and revisits places joint with his emotions and mistakes from the past, but instead of constantly focusing on his daughter's ''Anna'' (Bibiana Beglau) death. He finally gets in touch with her life, far away from Switzerland, in

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, where Anna felt drawn to in the mid 1980s after completing her degree in Italian. The spirited student left behind her involvement in the youth rebellion of the 1980s in Zürich, and, to her father's disappointment, Anna passed up the opportunity of a career at the university...

Title

The Italian language title ''Ricordare Anna'' means ''Remember Anna''.

Production

Produced by ''Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG'',

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SRF and

Radiotelevisione svizzera Radiotelevisione svizzera, officially Radiotelevisione svizzera di lingua italiana (; "Swiss Radiotelevision of the Italian Language"), shortened to RSI (formerly RTSI until 2009), is a subsidiary of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG SS ...

RSI, ''Ricordare Anna'' was filmed at locations in Switzerland and Italy. The Swiss drama film premiered at the

Solothurn Film Festival The Solothurn Film Festival (SFT) is the most important festival for Swiss film productions. Founded in 1966 in the Swiss city of Solothurn, the annual festival presents a representative selection of Swiss feature, documentary, and short film prod ...

on 24 January 2005. On 3 February 2005 ''Ricordare Anna'' premiered at the Swiss German cinemas, on 22 February 2006 in the French speaking area of Switzerland.

Reception

The Swiss movie portal ''cineman'' claimed, ''... and that Viktor seems also to find his love to the reconciliatory happy end, is almost overdid. However, Walo Deuber has realized a full-bodied and poignant film, which is open to top-notch in the supporting roles.

Festivals

* 2005: 40. Solothurner Filmtage. * 2005: 58. Festival internazionale del film Locarno. * 2006: 19ème Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels, Biarritz.

Awards

* 2005:

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, nomination ''Best Performance in a Leading Role'' (Bester Hauptdarsteller/Beste Hauptdarstellerin) for

References

External links

* * 2004 films Swiss drama films 2000s Italian-language films Swiss German-language films 2004 drama films Films shot in Zurich {{Switzerland-film-stub