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Cefalu bets on movie tourism: an exhibition and itineraries on movies locations

Cefalù

District: Sicily
Province: Palermo (PA)
Locations: Cefalù (PA)
Date: 2017-07-17

Cefalu bets on movie tourism: an exhibition and itineraries on movies locations

Cefalù

It was held in Cefalù in recent days the exhibition entitled A ciak among the streets of Cefalù.

The exhibition has revived to the visitors the ambience of the set of five famous movies shot and/or set in Cefalù.

The exhibition featured objects and materials from the five movie sets: original posters, scenes of photos, tools, the terracotta pot in the early titles of New Cinema Paradiso, cinematographic and photographic equipment.

Among those who contributed to the material for the exhibition were some filmmakers of Cefalù, including director Franco Turdo, the heir to the family of photographers Sandro Varzi, collector Giovanni Biondo, photographer Giuseppe Glorioso and Ms Caterina By Francesca, heir to one of the oldest family of movie theater operators still in business.

The tourist office of Cefalù has also set up real itineraries on the movies in Cefalù, available to all tour guides and tourists who will request them.

Movies

The first is Love Holidays (1954) directed by French director Jean-Paul Le Chanois with Robert Lamoureux, a young and beautiful Lucia Bosé, Hélene Remy, Walter Chiari and Delia Scala.

Set in the Village Magique, the future Club Mediterranée, a tourist village that no longer exists today and has lived its peak of splendor over the years 50 and 60.

Most of the film's filming took place on the headland of Santa Lucia, where the village is located, with some slight divagation in Piazza Duomo.

The second film in order of time, a masterpiece of Italian cinema, is We Still Kill the Old Way by Elio Petri, taken from a novel by Leonardo Sciascia. Interpreted by a great Gian Maria Volonté, a superb Irene Papas, Gabriele Ferzetti, Luigi Pistilli and Salvo Randone.

It then goes on with another masterpiece of Italian cinema Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (1988) by Giuseppe Tornatore, Oscar in 1990 for the best foreign film.

In the cast, Philippe Noiret, Salvatore Cascio, Leo Gullotta, Jacques Perrin, Agnese Nano, Enzo Cannavale.

The shooting took place between Palazzo Adriano and Cefalù.

The fourth film never came out in Italian cinemas. This is Mario and the Wizard (Mario und der Zauberer) by Klaus Maria Brandauer. From a novel by Thomas Mann, with Julian Sands, Anna Galiena, Jan Wachtel, Nina Schweser, Pavel Greco, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Valentina Chico, Rolf Hoppe, Philippe Leroy, Franco Concilio, Petra Reinhard.

Many scenes of the film were made in the historic center of Cefalù.

Last in time The Marriage Director (2006) by Marco Bellocchio with Sergio Castellitto and Donatella Finocchiaro.

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