''Signora Enrica'' () is a 2010 Italo-Turkish

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, written and directed by

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, starring

Claudia Cardinale Claude Joséphine Rose Cardinale (; born 15 April 1938), known as Claudia Cardinale (), is an Italian actress. Born and raised in La Goulette, a neighbourhood of Tunis, Cardinale won the "Most Beautiful Italian Girl in Tunisia" competition ...

as an elderly Italian woman who takes in a young Turkish exchange student. The film, which is scheduled to go on nationwide general release across Turkey on , was selected for the

47th International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival The 47th International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival () was a film festival held in Antalya, Turkey which ran from October 9 to 14, 2010. Prizes were awarded in four competitions in the course of the festival, at which 191 films were shown ...

Production

The film was shot on location in

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and

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Plot

Abandoned with a son by her husband years ago, Signora Enrica is notorious in her native Rimini for refusing to allow any men into her house ever since. She rents out rooms to female students, while also working as a tailor and at the market. She decides to make an exception to her age-old rule for Ekin, a Turkish student who comes to her house. Though Ekin doesn't speak Italian, he falls in love with Valentina, another tenant in the house, and seeks ways of communicating with her. Signora Enrica teaches Ekin Italian, dancing, and the subtleties of Italian cuisine – in other words, everything he needs to know to reach out to Valentina. Signora Enrica's son Giovanni begins to begrudge his mother for giving a stranger the love she has denied everybody else for years.

Cast

- Signora Enrica *

İsmail Hacıoğlu İsmail Hacıoğlu (born 30 November 1985) is a Turkish actor and son of Turkey national under-18 football team coach Mehmet Hacıoğlu and brother of actress Kardelen Hacıoğlu. Since the beginning his career, he is cited as one of the best a ...

- Ekin * Lavinia Longhi - Valentina *

Teoman Kumbaracıbaşı Teoman Kumbaracıbaşı (born 18 October 1971) is an Argentine-Turkish actor. He has appeared in more than twenty films since 2004. Selected filmography References External links * 1971 births Living people Turkish male film actor ...

- Giovanni

Release

Festival screenings

47th Antalya "Golden Orange" International Film Festival The 47th International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival () was a film festival held in Antalya, Turkey which ran from October 9 to 14, 2010. Prizes were awarded in four competitions in the course of the festival, at which 191 films were shown ...

(October 9–14, 2010)

References

External links

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