''The Case of Unfaithful Klara'' ( it, Il caso dell'infedele Klara, cz, Případ nevěrné Kláry) is a 2009 Italian-Czech

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directed by

Roberto Faenza Roberto Faenza (born 21 February 1943) is an Italian film director. Born in Turin in 1943, Faenza received a degree in Political Science and a diploma at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. Career Faenza made his directing debut in 1968 ...

. It is loosely based on the novel with the same name by Michal Viewegh. Luca, an Italian musician who lives in Prague as a music teacher at an elementary school, is in the grip of uncontrollable jealousy for his girlfriend Klara, an art history student about to graduate. Suspicious of the ambiguous relationship that the girl has with Pavel, her tutor at the university, Luca assigns a detective, Denis, to control her. After the first stalking, carried out with the help of sophisticated technologies, the detective decides to hide some evidence that he considers unimportant, almost as if he wants to protect his client from tormenting himself by unnecessary and unfounded suspicions. Thus begins a refined game of the parts between the two men that will lead them to contaminate each other: the one will transfer into the other elements and feelings that he did not know before. Denis, who lives an extremely open relationship with his wife Ruth and is in love with Nina, his assistant in the agency, loses serenity and professional "detachment". While Luca, engulfed by his passion for Klara, becomes patient and calculating, prompting the detective to follow Klara one last time on a study trip to Venice where Pavel is also present. Here, in disguise, Denis will get to know Klara and end up discovering a singular truth.

Cast

Laura Chiatti Laura Chiatti (born 15 July 1982, Castiglione del Lago, Italy) is an Italian actress and singer. She is the leading lady in two successful films: ''Ho voglia di te'', alongside Riccardo Scamarcio, and Paolo Sorrentino's third film ''The Family ...

: Klara *

Claudio Santamaria Claudio Santamaria is an Italian actor; in 2016 he was awarded the David di Donatello for Best Actor award for portraying the superhero Enzo 'Jeeg' Ceccotti in ''They Call Me Jeeg''. Career His cinema debut came in 1997, with Leonardo Pieracci ...

: Luca *

Iain Glen Iain Alan Sutherland Glen (born 24 June 1961) is a Scottish actor. Glen is best known for his roles as Dr. Alexander Isaacs/Tyrant in three films of the ''Resident Evil'' film series (2004–2016) and as Ser Jorah Mormont in the HBO fantasy t ...

: Denis *

Kierston Wareing Kierston Wareing (born 7 January 1976) is a British actress. Her first film role was the lead in Ken Loach's '' It's a Free World...'', followed by a supporting role in Andrea Arnold's ''Fish Tank'' – which won the BAFTA award for ‘Best Bri ...

: Nina * Pavlína Němcová: Ruth * Aňa Geislerová: Professor Smidt * Miroslav Šimůnek: Pavel

Production

Director Roberto Faenza said in the bathtub sex scene between Laura Chiatti and Claudio Santamaria he left the actors completely alone. "The crew was outside their room and inside there was a camera left alone with the actors, and maneuvered through a hole, so that they did not feel they were being watched. It was like they were actually having sex with each other," Faenza said.

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* * 2002 films 2002 romantic drama films Films directed by Roberto Faenza English-language Italian films Italian romantic drama films 2000s English-language films English-language romantic drama films {{2000s-romantic-drama-film-stub