Poignant and unforgettable, The Italian stands out from other European melodramas. Like its extraordinary child lead, this Russian drama about an orphan's search for his birth mother is small in size and monumental in pathos.
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Movie Info
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Director -
Andrey Kravchuk -
Producer -
Andrei Zertsalov -
Screenwriter -
Andrei Romanov -
Distributor -
Sony Pictures Classics -
Production Co -
Lenfilm Studio -
Rating -
PG-13 (Some Violence|Sexual Content|Language|Thematic Issues) -
Genre -
Drama -
Original Language -
English -
Release Date (Theaters) -
Jan 19, 2007, Limited -
Release Date (Streaming) -
May 15, 2012 -
Box Office (Gross USA) -
$552.5K -
Runtime -
1h 37m