| Director: | Susanna Nicchiarelli |
|---|---|
| Production: | Vivo film (Marta Donzelli, Gregorio Paonessa), Rai Cinema, Tarantula (Joseph Rouschop, Valérie Bournonville), VOO Be tv |
| Running Time: | 108’ |
| Language: | English |
| Country: | Italy, Belgium |
| Main Cast: | Romola Garai, Patrick Kennedy, John Gordon Sinclair, Felicity Montagu, Karina Fernandez, Oliver Chris, Philip Gröning |
| Screenplay: | Susanna Nicchiarelli |
| Cinematographer: | Crystel Fournier |
| Editor: | Stefano Cravero |
| Production Designer: | Alessandro Vannucci con Igor Gabriel |
| Costume Designer: | Massimo Cantini Parrini |
| Music: | Gatto Ciliegia contro il Grande Freddo, Downtown Boys |
| Sound: | Adriano Di Lorenzo |
Cinema
Miss Marx
Venezia 77 Competition
SYNOPSIS
Bright, intelligent, passionate and free, Eleanor is Karl Marx’s youngest daughter. Among the first women to link the themes of feminism and socialism, she takes part in the workers’ battles and fights for women’s rights and the abolition of child labor. In 1883 she meets Edward Aveling and her life is crushed by a passionate but tragic love story.
DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
Eleanor’s story gave me an opportunity to explore startlingly contemporary themes within a period context, but to do so properly I was determined to first study and then overturn the clichés of the costume drama. I tried to subvert the image of a Victorian heroine and replace it with a modern, emblematic picture of a woman fighting battles on both the personal front and the world stage. I believe that Eleanor’s story requires delicate irony: her love life was both absurd and tragic, her plight more than familiar to women today. But the story also demands profound respect: Eleanor’s battles and those of her peers are just as modern and urgent today as they were in the past.
PRODUCERS/DISTRIBUTORS
PRODUCTION 1: Marta Donzelli, Gregorio Paonessa - Vivo film
via Gualtiero Castellini 33
00197 – Roma, Italy
Tel. +39 068078002
Mob +39 3335896353
info@vivofilm.it
http://www.vivofilm.it
PRODUCTION 2: Rai Cinema
Piazza Adriana 12
00193 – Roma, Italy
Tel. +39 0633179601
produzione@raicinema.it
http://www.rai.it/raicinema
PRODUCTION 3: Joseph Rouschop, Valérie Bournonville - Tarantula
99, rue Auguste Donnay
4000 – Liège, Belgium
Tel. +32 42259079
info@tarantula.be
http://www.tarantula.be/
OTHERS COPRODUCTIONS: Philippe Logie - VOO and Be tv
Avenue Ariane 5, Bte 5
1200 Bruxelles, Belgium
Tel. +32 2 730 03 78
Philippe.logie@betv.be
WORLD SALES: Hengameh Panahi - Celluloid Dreams
2, Rue Turgot
75009 – Paris, France
Tel. +33 611 965720
hengameh@celluloid-dreams.com
info@celluloid-dreams.com
http://www.celluloid-dreams.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Celluloid-Dreams-209433732512/
https://twitter.com/DreamsCelluloid
https://www.instagram.com/celluloiddreams_/
ITALIAN DISTRIBUTION: Luigi Lonigro - 01 Distribution
Piazza Adriana 12
00193 – Roma, Italy
Tel. +39 0633179601
Luigi.lonigro@raicinema.it
http://www.01distribution.it/
ITALIAN PRESS OFFICE: Gabriele Barcaro
Roma, Italy
Mob. +39 3405538425
gabriele.barcaro@gmail.com
PRESS OFFICE: Charles McDonald - International Rescue
Mob.+44 7785246377
charles@charlesmcdonald.co.uk
