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2006 | Color | 138 min

Rena is an Ukranian young woman living in a unidentified Italian city. Soon we discover she has an horrible past of violence and humiliations. To pursue a mysterious aim she manages, by any means, legal and illegal, to get the job as a house servant for a wealthy couple with a little girl. She grows closer and closer to the family, especially to the girl, who suffers from a rare neurological disease. But someone will come back from her past, bringing new horrors and violence


Country: Italia
Direction: Tornatore; Giuseppe
Script: de Rit; Massimo, Tornatore; Giusepe
Production: Fattor; Laura
Photography: Zamario; Fabio
Sound: Palmiotto; Davide, Martinelli; Gilberto
Music: Morricone; Ennio
Cast:Rappoport; Ksenia, Placido; Michele, Gerini; Claudia, Favino; Pierfrancesco, Haber; Aleddandro, Degli Esposti; Piera, Dossena; Clara, Molina; Angela, Buy; Margherita
Art direction: Zera; Tonino
Participation year at FICM: 2007

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