Fulvio and Federica Lucisano’s Italian International Film (IIF), in collaboration with Vision Distribution and IDM – Alto Adige Film Commission, will produce Il Premio (The Prize), the new feature by Alessandro Gasmann who is currently on the set. As second directing work of the actor (Razzabastarda in 2012 was his first work), the film tells the story of Giovanni Passamonte (Gigi Proietti), an internationally renowned writer who is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Due to his fear of flying, Passamonte takes a road trip to Stockholm with his assistant Rinaldo (Rocco Papaleo) and Rinaldo’s sons Oreste (Gassmann) and Lucrezia (Anna Foglietta), the owner of a gym close to bankruptcy and a neurotic blogger, respectively.
Matilda De Angelis, Marco Zitelli, Erica Blanc and Andrea Jonasson are the other cast members. Vision Distribution will distribute the film in Italy.
