Dormant Beauty

Dormant Beauty (Bella addormentata)
Film poster
Directed by	Marco Bellocchio
Produced by	Riccardo Tozzi Giovanni Stabilini Marco Chimenz Fabio Conversi (co-producer) Fabio Massimo Cacciatori (executive producer) Franco Bevione (executive producer)
Written by	Marco Bellocchio Veronica Raimo Stefano Rulli
Starring	Isabelle Huppert
Music by	Carlo Crivelli
Cinematography	Daniele Ciprì
Edited by	Francesca Calvelli
Release dates	5 September 2012 (2012-09-05) (Venice) 6 September 2012 (2012-09-06) (Italy)
Running time	115 minutes
Country	Italy France
Language	Italian

Dormant Beauty (Italian: Bella addormentatacode: it is deprecated ) is a 2012 Italian drama film directed by Marco Bellocchio and starring Toni Servillo and Isabelle Huppert. The film was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 69th Venice International Film Festival.

For this film Maya Sansa won the David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress.

Plot

In 2009 the young Eluana Englaro because of an incident remains in a coma. The girl is deemed incurable and therefore the parents opt to commit an act of euthanasia for their daughter; but in Italy it isn't a legal to do this particular process, for which the Church and politics are hurled ruthlessly against the parents of Eluana. In the mean time some episodes occur among acquaintances of the girl, a young woman decides to kill herself wanting to ingest a massive dose of heroin, but she is persuaded to stop by a nurse; while a member of the political government of Berlusconi refuses to align himself with the party and plans to vote against a bill that will make euthanasia illegal.

Cast

• Toni Servillo as Uliano Beffardi
• Alba Rohrwacher as Maria
• Isabelle Huppert as Divina Madre
• Maya Sansa as Rossa
• Michele Riondino as Roberto
• Gianmarco Tognazzi
• Brenno Placido as Federico
• Fabrice Scott as Prete
• Roberto Herlitzka
• Francesco Roder as Giovane Cattolico
• Giorgio Basile

See also

• Isabelle Huppert filmography

External links

• Dormant Beauty at IMDb