''Sweet Dreams'' ( it, Sogni d'oro, also known as ''Golden Dreams'') is a
1981 Italian
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comedy-drama film
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directed, written and starring
Nanni Moretti
Giovanni "Nanni" Moretti (; born 19 August 1953) is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor.
His films have won accolades including a Palme d'Or at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival for ''The Son's Room'', a Silver Bear at the ...
.
It entered the
38th Venice International Film Festival
The 38th annual Venice International Film Festival was held on 2 to 12 September, 1981.
Jury
The following people comprised the 1981 jury:
* Italo Calvino (Italy) (head of jury)
* Marie-Christine Barrault (France)
* Peter Bogdanovich (USA)
* Lu ...
, in which won the
Special Jury Prize.
Plot
Michele Apicella (
Nanni Moretti
Giovanni "Nanni" Moretti (; born 19 August 1953) is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor.
His films have won accolades including a Palme d'Or at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival for ''The Son's Room'', a Silver Bear at the ...
) is a young filmmaker on a lecture tour, speaking to audiences after screenings of his films. An insistent audience member (
Dario Cantarelli) who appears at all the different venues repeatedly tells Michele that his films lack social relevance, challenging him to ‘show this film to a labourer from
Basilicata
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, a shepherd from
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or a housewife from
Treviso
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’.
Having finished the lecture tour, Michele returns home to the house that he shares with his mother (
Piera Degli Esposti) and begins working on a new project, a film called ''Freud’s Mother''. The strain of making the film takes its toll on him, and he retreats into a dream world in which he works as a teacher at a school and falls in love with one of his students, Silvia (
Laura Morante
Laura Morante (born 21 August 1956) is an Italian film actress.
Life and career
Morante was born in Santa Fiora, province of Grosseto ( Tuscany), the daughter of lawyer and playwright Marcello Morante, who was the son of Irma (née Poggibonsi) ...
). The dream turns sour as Silvia announces that she is moving to Argentina and will be gone for two years. This separation from Silvia drives Michele to the brink, and upon her return he transforms into a werewolf and chases her out of a restaurant, shouting ‘I’m a monster and I love you!’
Cast
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Nanni Moretti
Giovanni "Nanni" Moretti (; born 19 August 1953) is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor.
His films have won accolades including a Palme d'Or at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival for ''The Son's Room'', a Silver Bear at the ...
: Michele Apicella
*
Nicola Di Pinto
Nicola Di Pinto (born 12 June 1947) is an Italian actor. He appeared in more than seventy films since 1974.
Filmography
References
External links
*
1947 births
Living people
Italian male film actors
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: Nicola
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Laura Morante
Laura Morante (born 21 August 1956) is an Italian film actress.
Life and career
Morante was born in Santa Fiora, province of Grosseto ( Tuscany), the daughter of lawyer and playwright Marcello Morante, who was the son of Irma (née Poggibonsi) ...
: Silvia
*
Remo Remotti
Remo Remotti (16 November 1924 – 21 June 2015) was an Italian actor, playwright, artist and poet.
Life and career
Born in Rome, Remotti lost his father at 12 years old, then after graduating in Law he moved to Perù, where he attended an a ...
: Freud
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Piera Degli Esposti: Michele's mother
*
Alessandro Haber
Alessandro Haber (born 19 January 1947) is an Italian actor, film director and singer.
Haber was born in Bologna in a Jewish family of mixed ancestry (his father was a Romanian Jew and his mother Italian) and spent his childhood in Israel. His ...
: Gaetano
*
Gigio Morra: Gigio Cimino
*
Giampiero Mughini: TV presenter
*
Miranda Campa
Miranda Campa (31 January 1914 – 7 May 1989) was a Swiss-born Italian actress and voice actress.
Life and career
Born Liliana Campa Capodaglio in Geneva, the nephew of actors Pio Campa and Wanda Capodaglio, Campa studied acting at the ...
: Freud's mother
*
Vincenzo Salemme
Vincenzo Salemme (born 24 July 1957) is an Italian actor, playwright, director and screenwriter.
Life and career
Born in Bacoli, Province of Naples, Salemme began his career in 1976, with the stage company of Tato Russo.
The following year ...
: cultural operator
See also
*
List of Italian films of 1981
References
External links
*
1981 films
Films directed by Nanni Moretti
Venice Grand Jury Prize winners
Italian comedy-drama films
1981 comedy-drama films
1981 comedy films
1981 drama films
1980s Italian films
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