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GLORIA!

By Margherita VICARIO

Female director - Completed 2024

Set in a girls' institute in Venice at the end of the 1700s, Gloria! tells the story of Teresa, a woman with a visionary talent, who, together with a group of extraordinary musicians, crosses centuries and challenges the catafalques of the Ancien Régime by inventing rebellious and modern music. Pop!

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Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2024

Competition

Cannes Marché du Film 2024

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- Female director, Musical, Comedy
- Countries
- ITALY, SWITZERLAND
- Languages
- ITALIAN
- Duration
- 106 mn
- Director(s)
- Margherita VICARIO
- Writer(s)
- Margherita VICARIO, Anita RIVAROLI
- Cast
- Galatea BELLUGI, Carlotta GAMBA, Veronica LUCCHESI (RDL), Maria Vittoria DALLASTA, Sara MAFODDA, Paolo ROSSI
- Producer(s)
- Valeria JAMONTE (Tempesta), Mannuela MELISSANO (Tempesta), Carlo CRESTO-DINA (Tempesta), Paolo DEL BROCCO (RaiCinema), Katrin RENZ (Tellfilm)
- Synopsis
- At the dawn of the year 1800, not far from Venice, stands the Sant'Ignazio Institute, a cross between an orphanage, a conservatory, and a convent. For years now, it has been home for Teresa, a young woman with a special gift: a visionary talent that allows her to listen to the world around her and transform it, animating it with a new, contemporary, timeless music. An enchantment... that is shattered when reality makes an incursion and brings her back to her duties. Because in the convent everyone calls her “the Mute”, a scullery maid who lives silently and alone. But things are about to change for her. While the convent is in turmoil for the imminent concert that the Chapel Master, the arid and despotic Perlina, is to conduct in honor of Pope Pius VII who is soon to visit, Teresa makes an exceptional discovery: a piano, brand new and never used, hidden in the convent's storage room. She can finally translate the music in her head into reality! An exhilarating and solitary experiment... until one night, guided by Teresa's strange melody, a small group of musicians who live in the convent peep into the warehouse: they are Lucia, first violin of Sant'Ignazio, and her friends, Prudenza, Bettina and Marietta. Soon, won over by the magnetism of Teresa, who creates songs like a pop composer of our century, the girls form a close-knit group of rebellious musicians, giving life to a new music that the Pope (and the world) certainly did not expect... Gloria! speaks of the imagination, inventiveness and talent of all women composers who, like dried flowers, have remained hidden in the pages of history.

GLORIA!

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