“Udine collects the dialogues of three stories and makes them into a monologue of emotions, people and lives”
Dario Carta, Cinemaitalia.info
Shooting for the film took place mainly in Udine, which becomes the fourth protagonist of the story. Outside Udine, sets featured include Villa Castelcosa in San Giorgio della Richinvelda (PN), and the woods near Porzùs.
“Udine collects the dialogues of three stories and makes them into a monologue of emotions, people and lives”
Dario Carta, Cinemaitalia.info
Shooting for the film took place mainly in Udine, which becomes the fourth protagonist of the story. Outside Udine, sets featured include Villa Castelcosa in San Giorgio della Richinvelda (PN), and the woods near Porzùs.
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Saverio Indrio, Ivan Senin, Werner Di Donato — Caffè Ottelio, Piazza San Giacomo, Udine
Copyright: Andrea D'Atri
Vivianne Treschow, Alberto Torquati — Fontana di Piazza San Giacomo, Udine
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Massimiliano Grazioli — Castelcosa, San Giorgio della Richinvelda (PN)
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Chiara Pavoni, Werner Di Donato, Alejandro Paitun Flocco — Fontana di Piazza San Giacomo, Udine
Copyright: Andrea D'Atri
Chiara Pavoni — Church of San Giacomo, Piazza San Giacomo, Udine
The number three is everything in this movie. Three and its multiples. Archaic, spiritual, transcendent numbers. Three, Six, Nine. Carriers of wisdom that heart of theological monotheisms. Three, the Christian Trinity. Six, the tips of the of David, Jewish Star. Nine, the face of God to the Sufi traditions, according to the Islamic culture. Three stories are intertwined in a land, Friuli, which extends along a triple border. The stories of Irene, a Carnian, Christian girl; Pavel, Ukrainian and jew; Mehdi, Iranian and Muslim. Three antagonists: an old blind man, able to see beyond the phenomenal reality; Monsignor Angelo, the spiritual father of Irene; a mysterious, provocative, sensual, poisonous woman. Three minor characters: the novice Edo; Omar, a false friend of Mehdi; the Angel of the North, a figure originated in the Koranic tradition: it can be seen, sometimes behind the characters. Then, ten, a little girl...
