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Italian Drama ‘Nonostante,’ Munich Olympics Massacre Drama ‘September 5’ Set as Venice Horizons and Horizons Extra Openers
Italian drama 'Nonostante' and Munich Olympics massacre drama 'September 5' have been set respectively as Venice Horizons and Horizons Extra openers.
Italian drama “Nonostante” by actor-director Valerio Mastandrea, and 1972 Munich Summer Olympics drama “September 5″ – helmed by Tim Fehlbaum and starring Peter Sarsgaard – have been set as openers of the Venice Film Festival ’s cutting edge Horizons and Horizons Extra sections respectively. The timely “September 5,” which has been picked up by Republic Pictures, reconstructs tough decisions made by an American sports broadcasting team that rapidly adapted from sports reporting to live coverage of the Israeli athletes taken hostage. “Nonostante,” (the title translates as “despite”) is the second feature directed by Mastandrea who also stars as a hospitalized man whose peaceful existence is disrupted by the arrival in the same ward of a restless, angry woman who is bursting with a powerful vitality.
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