''Vera'' is a 2022 Austrian-Italian
docudrama
Docudrama (or documentary drama) is a genre of television show, television and feature film, film, which features Drama (film and television), dramatized Historical reenactment, re-enactments of actual events. It is described as a hybrid of docu ...
film directed and produced by
Tizza Covi and
Rainer Frimmel. It stars
Vera Gemma playing a semi-fictionalized version of herself.
The film was selected in the
Horizons section at the
79th edition of the
Venice Film Festival
The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival (, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival held in Venice, Italy. It is the world's oldest film festival and one of the ...
, winning the awards for Best Director and Best Actress. It was selected as the
Austrian entry for the
Best International Feature Film at the
96th Academy Awards.
Plot
Vera, the daughter of
Spaghetti Western
The spaghetti Western is a broad subgenre of Western films produced in Europe. It emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's filmmaking style and international box-office success. The term was used by foreign critics because most o ...
star
Giuliano Gemma, 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
*
Vera Gemma as Vera
* Giuliana Gemma as Giuli
*
Asia Argento as Asia
*
Alessandra Di Sanzo 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
See also
* ''
Scarlet Diva''
References
External links
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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
2020s Italian-language films
2020s Italian films