01-03-2011

PRODUCTION: September 11 in Preparation

By Iulia Blaga

    BUCHAREST: Italian director Renzo Martinelli is preparing September 11, his second collaboration with the Romania's Castel Film (www.castelfilm.ro) starring American actor Harvey Keitel. Martinelli previously worked with Castel Film on Sword of War (2009) starring Rutger Hauer and F. Murray Abraham.

    The film's working title, September 11, refers not to the terrorist attacks of 2001, but rather the Battle of Vienna which took place on 11 and 12 of September 1683 after Vienna had been besieged by the Ottoman Empire for two months.

    Shooting will start in April and is not expected to wrap until summer, with the epic requiring a large scale production. The film is produced by Renzo Martinelli and Martinelli Film (www.martinellifilm.it). Castel Film is providing facilities.

    According to the Romanian producer Tandem Film (www.tandemfilm.com), Keitel is expected to shoot another film in Romania this year: Bogdan Dumitrescu Dreyer's So I Say, in May-June.

    Production Information

    Martinelli Film

    Milano office

    Nicoletta Fuse'

    via Moscova, 27 - 20121 Milano, Italy

    Phone: 02.65.90.948

    Fax: 02 65.52.466

    www.martinellifilm.it

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    Rome office

    Manuela Palumbo

    via San Tommaso D'Aquino, 90 - 00136 Rome, Italy

    Phone: 06 39.74.62.13

    Fax: 06 39.72.93.29

    www.martinellifilm.it

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    USA

    US representative

    Ilaria Niccolini Production Inc.

    Phone: +1-631-903-7878

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