ITALY
IL RABDOMANTE
2007 - 35mm - Color - 105'
Direction: Fabrizio Cattani
Script: Pascal Zullino
Screenplay: Fabrizio Cattani, Chiara Laudani, Pascal Zullino
Photography: Francesco Carini
Set design: Biagio Fersini
Cast: Pascal Zullino, Andrea Osvart, Riccardo Zinna, Antonio Gerardi, Francesco Dominedò, Nando Irene, Lucianna De Falco, Massimo Sarchielli, Sascha Zacharias
Production: The Coproducers, BluVideo Matera, MarbeaPost
SYNOPSIS
The film tells the story of a schizophrenic forty-year-old man, Felice, who lives in a farm, and has the gift of 'feeling' water in the bowels of the earth and help the farmers of the area, suffering from arid land. In this way he comes into conflict with Ninì Cintanidd, the gangster holding the business of water in that area. One day a young Eastern-European girl, Harja, seeks refuge in his farm: she is pregnant and has just escaped from the clutches of his persecutor. It turns out to be Ninì Cintanidd himself who tells two of his collaborateors, Camardo brothers, to find the girl and his right hand, Tonino, to stop those who are opening the weels to farmers: between Felice and Harja, both lonely and with a difficult past, a tender friendship grows, but they both find out they have good reasons to have doubts about the other...Meanwhile the gangster gets nearer and nearer the farm…
CRITICAL NOTE
"(…) Well-deserved retrieval, Il rabdomante is an example of auteur poor cinema but accessible. A language, cinematographic and not, simple and straightforward allows it to talk and cherish everybody's heart, stomach and brain. This is witnessed by the applauses of the festival premieres that brought it to the distribution in cinemas (with that good project by Eros Puglielli called The coproducers) acclaimed by public and critics. A love tale, sweet and harsh. Andrea Oswart proves to be really good as well as beautiful…" (Boris Sollazzo)
ANDREA OSVART
Born in Budapest on 25th April 1979, she studied acting first in Budapest where she graduated at the local university in Italian Literature, with a dissertation on Elsa Morante, and then at the International Acting School in Rome.
She worked much in Italy, both in films and for television, among which Sara May (2004), directed by Marianna Sciveres, The Clan (2005), directed by Christian Dev Sica, where she plays Patricia, the main character, Casanova (2005) with Heath Ledger and Soenna Miller. Il rabdomante (2006) directed by Fabrizio Cattani) and mostly shot in Matera and in the surroundings, of which she is co-producer, Le due tigri (2007), directed by Sandro Cecca, and Soundtrack (2008) directed by Franesca Marra.
Among the TV series we remember: Il bell'Antonio, directed by Maurizio Zaccaro, and La caccia, directed by Massimo Spano, where she plays the leading role Tania, Exodus - Il sogno di Ada, directed by Gianluigi Calderone, and Pompei, directed by Giulio Base, where she plays the leading role Valeria, all TV series broadcasted between 2005 and 2006 on RAIUNO.
In 2008 she hosts Sanremo Festival with Pippo Baudo, Bianca Guaccero and Piero Chiambretti.
FILMOGRAFIA
2000 The Contaminated Man di Antony Hickox
2001 Spy Game di Tony Scott
2003 Kistestvér di A. Lengyel
2005 The Clan di Christian De Sica
2006 Mare nero di Roberta Torre
2006 Sara May di Marianna Sciveres
2006 Il rabdomante di Fabrizio Cattani
2006 Le due tigri di Sandro Cecca
2006 Una Piccola Storia di Stefano Chiantini
2007 Italia 2061 di Carlo Vanzina
2007 Soundtrack di Francesca Marra
2008 Over the Bridge di Mihály Győrik
2008 Duplicity di Tony Gilroy
AWARD
2007 Winner of Women In Film Italy Award
