STRADIVARI

Giacomo Battiato. Italy 1989. - 110 min
Drama

Writing credits: Giacomo Battiato, Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Ernesto Gastaldi, Vittorio Salerno

Produced by: Claudio Mancini (executive producer), Achille Manzotti,
Fabiomassimo Dell'Orco (production assistant), Luigi Marchione (assistant production secretary), Antonio Stefanucci (production secretary), Cinzia Taffani (production secretary)

Original Music: Francesco Tampori
Non-original Music: Georg Friedrich Händel (from Water Music), Johann Pachelbel (from Canon), Henry Purcell (from Dido & Aeneas), Georg Philipp Telemann, Marco Uccellini, Antonio Vivaldi

Cinematography: Tonino Delli Colli, Massimo Intoppa (assistant camera), Fabio Lanciotti (assistant camera), Marco Sperduti (camera operator)
Film Editing: Alfredo Muschietti, Fausto Biagiotti (assistant editor), Andrea Caterini (assistant editor), Nadia Mazzoni (assistant editor), Fiorella Lugli (edition secretary)
Casting: Gianni Arduini
Production Design: Paolo Biagetti

Costume Design: Nanà Cecchi,
Elisabetta Montaldo (assistant costumes), Gloria Picone (assistant costumes), Emanuela Zito (assistant costumes)
Makeup Department:
Carlo Barucci (hair stylist), Ennio Cascioli (hair stylist), Grazia De Rossi (key hair stylist), Nilo Jacoponi (makeup department head), Giulio Mastrantonio (makeup artist), Vincenzo Mastrantonio (makeup artist), Gabriella Trani (makeup artist)

Production Management: Bruno Bagella, Lucia Nolano, Angelo Zemella
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director: Gianni Arduini, Enrico Marrari

Art Department: Maurizio Sabatini (assistant production designer)
Sound Department: Bernard Bats, Michel Kharat

Musicans: Francesco Tampori (conductor, musician: violin), Salvatore Accardo (violin), Rinaldo Alessandrini (cembaro), Claudia Vivenzio (assistant editor)

Cast:
Anthony Quinn (Antonio Stradivari), Stefania Sandrelli (Antonia Maria), Valérie Kaprisky (Francesca), Francesco Quinn (Alessandro), Danny Quinn (I) (Francesco), Lorenzo Quinn (Antonio Stradivari, young), Fanny Bastien (Caterina), Jean-Paul Muel (Il sarto), Leopoldo Trieste (Nicolò Amati), Patrizia De Clara (Maddalena), Stefano Mancini (Antonio Stradivari, child), Michael Valeri (Omobono), Armando Marra (Frate maestro), Benedetto Fanna (Marco), Stefano Gragnani (Marchese Ariberti), Domenico Sepe (Frate cuciniere), Graziella Diano, David Mansell (Frate Priore), Andrea Emer (Novizio), Giancarlo Palermo (Il prete), Ernesto Fornai (Bardes), Charles Borromel (Pescaroli), Alessandro Serra (Bastia), Paolo Marchetti (Marco, child), Norma Martelli (Megera), Marne Maitland (Medico), Angelo Maggi (Cantante opera), Enzo Aronica (Signorotto taverna as Vincenzo Aronica), Paolo Paoloni (Motoni), Sergio Pierattini (Artigiano vernice), Nona Medici (Madre di Antonia Maria), Robert Sommer (I) (Sergente austriaco), Antonio Vezza (Giovanni Ferrabuschi), Luigi Astori (Violinista spagnolo), Davide Amodio (Violinista amico Antonio), Riccardo Pellegrino (Abate violoncellista), Giordano Falzoni (Orafo Vitali), Gabriele Bartoli (Prete rosso), Sabina Barzilai (Ragazza compagnia comici barcone), Fabio Carfora (Clavicembalista), Pietro Ceccarelli (Secondino carcere), Paolo Ciminelli (Violoncellista barcone), Ermanno De Biagi (Prigioniero carcere), Nicoletta Della Corte (Prostituta taverna), Fabrizio Fontana (Impresario comici barcone), Iaia Forte (Comica barcone), Mario Galvani (Generale), Néstor Garay (Maestro musica corte), Antonino Iuorio (Primo dignitario as Antonio Juorio), Ted Rusoff (Secondo dignitario), Lorenzo Masotti (Primo ufficiale austriaco), Alexander Hohenegger (Secondo ufficiale austriaco), Bruno Mollo (Terzo ufficiale austriaco), John Karles (Gran Ciambellano), Giuliano Melchiorri (Primo guitto), Riccardo Macrì (Secondo guitto), Nicoletta Magalotti (Cantante Tersifone), Federico Marincola (Liutista taverna), Salvatore Marino (Ballerino barcone), Maurizio Mauri (Funzionario spagnolo), Mohamed Badrsalem (Cerbero opera), Maria Grazia Nazzari (Ragazza signorotto), Susi Niemen (Ragazza sui fili), Domenico Pertica (Zio Francesca), Marco Pesci (Giovane liutaio), Antonella Sperati (Danzatrice acrobatica festa), Francesco Tampori (Maestro teatro Ariberti), Corrado Taranto (Signorotto), Gianfelice Vagliani (Il vecchio), Alfredo Vasco (Capitano spagnolo), Cesare Magrini (Figlio Amati), Costantino Meloni (Andrea), Mario Castaldi (Architetto Capra)

Plot Summary:

As a boy the orphan Antonio Stradivari heard for the first time in his life the sound of a violin and he was fascinated by its voice. He tried to construct a violin and attracted the attention of Niccolò Amati, a famous lutist of Cremona. Antonio became apprentice in his bottega (workshop). Grown up, he fell in love for Francesca and he succeeded in marrying her. Afterwards he became more and more famous for his violins and he was granted a diploma from the king of Spain. After the death of his wife he was almost forced to marry again. He was chosen by Antonia Maria and it will be a happy marriage. In the background we have a look at the history of Northern Italy during the seventeenth century.

(Summary written by Baldinotto da Pistoia, www.imdb.com)