IL CAIMANO

(THE CAIMAN)
Nanni MORETTI
  • 2006
  • In Competition
  • Feature Films

Bankrupt in his professional and personal life, Z-grade movie producer Bruno Bonomo – responsible in the past for such evocatively-titled offerings as “Mocassin Assassins” and “Maciste vs. Freud” – is finding it impossible to raise the finance for his latest project, “The Return of Christopher Columbus”.

Entangled in debts and his own weaknesses, struggling with a capsizing marriage and his wayward kids, Bruno is going under.

By chance, he meets a young director who gives him her script, The Caiman. At first Bruno takes it for a half-hearted thriller ; a more careful – if belated – reading reveals a film about Berlusconi.

No longer can he stand back. He must set up the production, find the lead actor, sort out the financing of the film – all the while trying to pick up the p

Directed by : Nanni MORETTI
Year of production: 2006
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 112

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Contacts

Secondary Production

  • BAC FILMS France

Secondary Production

  • STEPHAN FILMS France

Secondary Production

  • FRANCE 3 CINEMA France