''Vera'' is a 2022 Austrian-Italian

docudrama Docudrama (or documentary drama) is a genre of television and film, which features dramatized re-enactments of actual events. It is described as a hybrid of documentary and drama and "a fact-based representation of real event". Docudramas typic ...

film directed and produced by

Tizza Covi Tizza Covi (1971, in Bolzano) is an Italian screenwriter and director. She lived in Paris and Berlin before studying photography in Vienna. After finishing her studies she went to Rome where she worked as a photographer. Since 1996 she works tog ...

and

Rainer Frimmel Rainer Frimmel (born 11 July 1971 in Vienna) is an Austrian director and photographer. After studying psychology in Vienna he graduated as a photographer. He has received scholarships in New York City, Paris and Rome for his photographic work. Si ...

. It stars

Vera Gemma Vera Gemma is an Italian film actress. She was born in Rome, Italy. Her father was the movie star actor Giuliano Gemma. Filmography * Vera (2022) * The Card Player (2004) * Scarlet Diva (2000) * E insieme vivremo tutte le stagioni (1999) * Ca ...

playing a semi-fictionalized version of herself. The film was selected in the Horizons section at the 79th edition of the

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, winning the awards for Best Director and Best Actress. It was selected as the Austrian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the

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Plot

Vera, the daughter of

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star

Giuliano Gemma Giuliano Gemma (2 September 1938 – 1 October 2013) was an Italian actor. He is best known internationally for his work in Spaghetti Westerns, particularly for his performances as the title character in Duccio Tessari's ''A Pistol for Ringo'' (1 ...

, spends a lavish and superficial life in the shadow of her father. Her life has an unexpected turning point after injuring a child in a car accident.

Cast

as Vera * Giuliana Gemma as Giuli *

Asia Argento Asia Argento (; born Aria Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento; 20 September 1975) is an Italian actress and filmmaker. The daughter of filmmaker Dario Argento, she has had roles in several of her father's features and achieved mainstream success with a ...

as Asia *

Alessandra Di Sanzo Alessandra Di Sanzo, born 26 August 1969, is an Italian actress best known for her portrayal of the teenage trans prostitute ''Marilyn Libassi'', nicknamed ''Mery'' in Marco Risi's dramatic film, ''Mery per sempre'' (" Forever Mary"), which was ...

as Alessandra * Daniel De Palma as Daniel * Sebastian Dascalu as Manuel * Gennaro Lilio as Gennaro * Annamaria Ciancamerla as grandmother * Ivan Bellavista as director of the audition

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* {{Austrian submission for Academy Awards 2022 films 2022 drama films 2022 documentary films Austrian drama films Austrian documentary films Italian docudrama films Docudrama films 2020s Italian-language films 2020s Italian films

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