''Signora Enrica'' ( tr, Sinyora Enrica ile Ä°talyan Olmak) is a 2010 Italo-Turkish
comedy-drama film, written and directed by
Ali Ä°lhan, starring
Claudia Cardinale 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 ( tr, 47. Uluslararası Antalya Altın Portakal Film Festivali) was a film festival held in Antalya, Turkey which ran from October 9 to 14, 2010. Prizes were awarded in four competition ...
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Production
The film was shot on location in
Istanbul,
Turkey and
Rimini,
Italy.
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
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Claudia Cardinale - Signora Enrica
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İsmail Hacıoğlu - Ekin
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Lavinia Longhi
Lavinia Longhi (born 18 March 1980) is an Italian actress. She was born in Mariano Comense
Mariano Comense ( Brianzöö: ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Como, Lombardy, Italy. It has c. 23,600 inhabitants and is one of the most i ...
- Valentina
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Teoman Kumbaracıbaşı - Giovanni
Release
Festival screenings
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47th Antalya "Golden Orange" International Film Festival
The 47th International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival ( tr, 47. Uluslararası Antalya Altın Portakal Film Festivali) was a film festival held in Antalya, Turkey which ran from October 9 to 14, 2010. Prizes were awarded in four competitions ...
(October 9–14, 2010)
See also
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Turkish films of 2010
A list of films produced by the Turkish film industry in Turkey in 2010.
Highest-grossing films
Events
;January
:30 — '' New Turkish Cinema'' by Asuman Suner published.
;February
:16 — ''Honey'' ( tr, Bal) directed by Semih Kaplanoğlu ...
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2011
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2010 in film
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References
External links
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Filmpotpage for the film
2010 films
2010s Turkish-language films
2010s Italian-language films
2010 comedy-drama films
Films shot in Turkey
Turkish comedy-drama films
2010 multilingual films
Turkish multilingual films
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