Telelore

Venuto al mondo

  • 2012
  • 2 h 7 min
  • Spain, Italy, Croatia

Overview

Oft-married Gemma visits Sarajevo with her only child, Pietro. The two of them had escaped the city sixteen years ago, just days after his birth during the Bosnian War. Diego, her second husband and Pietro's father, remained behind and later died. As they travel with her wartime friend Gojko, she tries to repair her relationship with Pietro, asking her third husband (by phone) if she should tell Pietro that she did not give birth to him. Gemma is later stunned by the revelation that Pietro's real mother, Aska, is still alive and married to Gojko. Aska reveals that, contrary to Gemma's long held belief, Diego was not Pietro's father, as she had been a sex slave to a garrison of the Serb Volunteer Guard. Gemma must face loss, the cost of war and the redemptive power of love.

Runtime
2 h 7 min
Released
2012-09-13, Worldwide
Countries
Spain, Italy, Croatia
Original language
Italian

Release history

  1. Worldwide

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Production

The film was shot over 15 weeks in digital using the Arri Alexa system.

Reception

The film received negative critic reviews. It holds a 17% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 23 reviews. About the film, The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "Dripping with floridly phony dialogue that no actor should be forced to speak, this paternity mystery uses the Bosnian conflict as the manipulative backdrop to a preposterously overwrought and overlong melodrama." Variety added that the film had "little to offer beyond some pitiful twists."

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