''The Orange Thief'' is a Sicilian/Italian film shot in Lucca Sicula by a group of American and Italian actors and filmmakers. It stars newcomers
Andrea Calabrese,
Alessio Giottoli
Alessio is an Italian male name, Italian form of Alexius.
Individuals with the given name Alessio
*Alessio Ascalesi (1872–1952), Italian cardinal
* Alessio Bandieri (born 1974), Italian footballer
*Alessio Boni (born 1966), Italian actor
*Ale ...
, and
Micaela Helvetica Saxer. The film was written by Sicilian-American brothers, ex-NASA scientist,
James D'Angelo (aka Boogie Dean) and tampon case artist
Vinnie Angel. It was produced and directed by D'Angelo, Angel and production artist
Arthur Wilinski.
The film won a number of festival circuit awards, including Best of Show at the
Woodstock Film Festival
The Woodstock Film Festival is an American film festival launched in 2000 by filmmakers Meira Blaustein and Laurent Rejto in the Hudson Valley region of New York. The festival takes place each fall in the towns of Woodstock, Rosendale and Saug ...
in 2008.
The film also got significant attention for how it was made, as it was written and shot in one month. The approach was developed by Angel and D'Angelo based on D'Angelo's concern that the biggest obstacle and expense driver with respect to producing a low budget film is the script.
Plot
In
Sicily
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, a young thief who has nothing sleeps under the stars and steals and sells oranges. Thievery gets him tossed in jail where his cellmate is Turrido, who offers the thief a deal: get Turrido's ex-lover Rosalba to make a recording of her singing and Turrido will give the thief a piece of land of his own.
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Italian comedy films
2007 films
2000s Italian films
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