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ACROSS THE RIVER

By Paula ORTIZ

THE EXCHANGE - as SALES All rights

Book adaptation - Completed 2024

Colonel Richard Cantwell, wounded and damaged by the war, seeks inner peace.

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- Book adaptation, Drama
- Countries
- ITALY, UNITED KINGDOM
- Languages
- ENGLISH, ITALIAN
- Duration
- 113 mn
- Director(s)
- Paula ORTIZ
- Writer(s)
- Peter FLANNERY
- Cast
- Liev SCHREIBER, Josh HUTCHERSON, Matilda DE ANGELIS, Danny HUSTON
- Producer(s)
- Robert MACLEAN (Tribune Picture), Ken GORD (Tribune Picture)
- Synopsis
- Set in Italy during WWII, American Army Col. Richard Cantwell, is a bona fide war hero who faces news of his terminal illness with stoic disregard. Determined to spend his weekend in quiet solitude, he commandeers a military driver to facilitate what is likely a final duck hunting trip and visit to his old haunts in Venice. As Cantwell’s plans begin to unravel, a chance encounter with a young countess begins to kindle in him the hope of renewal. Based on the last full-length novel Hemingway published in his lifetime, ACROSS THE RIVER AND INTO THE TREES captures a fleeting moment of immortality where time stands still. The story contains the great Hemingway themes of love, war, youth and age.