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Release Date:
September 5, 2003
Original Title:
Il ritorno di Cagliostro
Genres:
Comedy
Production Companies:
Cinico Cinema
Istituto Luce Cinecittà
RAI
Production Countries:
Italy
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 100
In the Sicily of the late 1940s, two brother sculptors, tired of selling madonnas to the local churches, finally realize their dream, and set up a Sicilian production company, thanks to the help of a local bishop. They start producing one box-office failure Z-movie after the other, all with terribly bad local non-pros as actors. Covered in debts, they finally have their great chance, when a local nobleman obsessed by magic decides to invest all his wealth in the making of a movie about Cagliostro, just one year after Orson Welles' Black Magic (1949). They hire a famous American actor (Robert Englund) and start shooting "The Return of Cagliostro".
Casting:
Claudia Uzzo
Costume Design:
Patrizia Quaranta
Director:
Daniele Ciprì
Franco Maresco
Director of Photography:
Daniele Ciprì
Editor:
Fabio Nunziata
Original Music Composer:
Salvatore Bonafede
Producer:
Pippo Bisso
Silvana Carrara
Loris Curci
Mario Mazzarotto
Production Design:
Cesare Inzerillo
Nicola Sferruzza
Production Manager:
Barbara Spina
Screenplay:
Franco Maresco
Daniele Ciprì
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