CAIRO – 13 September 2017: Director Annarita Zambrano’s French-Italian film, “After the War” (Dopo la Guerra), is an emotional and harrowing drama about the personal aftermath of radical political extremism.
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Set in 2002, the film follows Marco Lamberti, played by Italian actor Giuseppe Battiston, a political terrorist for Italy’s far-left who fled to France in 1981. He lived a peaceful life until the French government’s repeal of a policy which allowed convicted Italian terrorists to live there in exile. Suspected of having been involved in the murder of a judge in a terrorist attack, Lamberti is forced to flee with his teenage daughter, Viola (Charlotte Cétaire) to an uncertain future.
The film also follows a second plotline involving Lamberti’s mother and his sister back in Italy, who have not seen him in almost 20 years and now must deal with his Italian press’s hounding; a reminder of a painful past that they once again must suffer for. These two plots flow together naturally to express the film’s themes of how the sins of the past can return to haunt those who do everything to forget.
While lacking action or violence, the film is fundamentally about those things. In a review from the Hollywood Reporter, writer Boyd van Hoeii said the film is “more specifically about politically motivated violence that can be the result of people being willfully ignored by their own government, a subject that should resonate strongly with today’s audiences.”
The film is set to premiere in Italy on October 19, and has already won a Special Mention award for Best Female Performer at the Art Film Festival, and has been nominated for two awards from the Cannes Film Festival.
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