Synopsis:
For 20 years many visitors have come to the villa on an Italian hilltop owned by an English artist. Lucy, a 19-year-old American, was last there four years ago and wants to meet up again with the young Italian who kissed her and corresponded for a while. And she has brought the diary of her late mother filled with enigmatic poems that suggest Lucy was conceived on that hilltop. Lucy wants to find out if Daddy is the Italian war correspondent who wrote to her mother for 20 years. Then again Daddy could be the dying English playwright in residence or the artist who uses a chainsaw on tree trunks for his sculptures.

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PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS:

Carlo Cecchi ............. Carlo Lisca
Sinead Cusack ............ Diana
Joseph Fiennes ........... Christopher
Jason Flemyng ............ Gregory
Anna-Maria Gherardi ...... Chiarella Donati
Jeremy Irons ............. Alex
Jean Marais .............. M. Guillaume
Donal McCann ............. Ian
D W Moffett .............. Richard
Ignozio Oliva ............ Osvaldo Donati
Stefania Sandrelli ....... Noemi
Francesco Siciliano ...... Michele Lisca
Mary Jo Sorgani .......... Maria
Leonardo Trevigilio ...... Lieutenant
Liv Tyler ................ Lucy
Rebecca Valpy ............ Daisy
Alessandra Vanzi ......... Marta
Rachel Weisz ............. Miranda
Roberto Zibetti .......... Niccolo Donati

PRODUCTION CREDITS:

Written by................  Bernardo Bertolucci (story)
..........................  Susan Minot
Directed by...............  Bernardo Bertolucci
Executive Producer........  Yves Attal
Associate Producer........  Chris Auty
Producer..................  Jeremy Thomas
Original Music............  Richard Hartley
Cinematography............  Darius Khondi
Film Editing..............  Pietro Scalia
Casting...................  Howard Feuer, Celestia Fox
Production Design.........  Gianni Silvestri
Costume Design............  Louise Stjernsward

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