Shakespeare a Palermo

In the late 1990s, in a dilapidated theater in the heart of Palermo, Carlo Cecchi is working on a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the second play in his Shakespearean trilogy, translated by the poet Patrizia Cavalli. Director Francesca Comencini – who sees Cecchi as the last representative of an Italy not subservient to the media and Berlusconi’s power – decides to follow him and is allowed to film the show’s rehearsals, on the condition that she does it all on her own and with discretion.

• Francesca ComenciniDirector
• Francesca ComenciniScreenplay

• Carlo CecchiCast
• Iaia ForteCast
• Valerio BinascoCast
• Arturo CirilloCast
• Vito Di BellaCast
• Viola GraziosiCast
• Andre PushkinCast
• Lorenza IndovinaCast
• Tommaso RagnoCast
• Roberto De FrancescoCast
• Spiro ScimoneCast
• Francesco SframeliCast