The Postman
Synopsis
Mario earns his living working on the family fishing boat. He dreams of other things, but there are not many alternatives in the 1950s in this fishing village tucked away on a beautiful Italian island. When a nearby village needs a postman, Mario jumps at the job. The only address he has to deliver to is the house of a new arrival, the famous exiled Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda. As the months go by, the two men gradually get to know each other and Mario discovers a world he had never dreamed of.
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Actors (6)
Production and distribution (3)
- Co-productions : STUDIOCANAL, Blue Dahlia Production
- Foreign production companies : Tiger Cinematografica, Esterno Mediterraneo, Cecchi Gori Group, Penta Film, K2 Productions
- French distribution : Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International (ex-Buena Vista International France)
Full credits (10)
- Screenwriters : Furio Scarpelli, Giacomo Scarpelli, Massimo Troisi, Michael Radford, Anna Pavignano
- Director of Photography : Franco Di Giacomo
- Music Composer : Luis Bacalov
- Editor : Roberto Perpignani
- Sound Recordist : Massimo Loffredi
- Costume designer : Gianna Gissi
- Foreign producers : Mario Cecchi Gori, Vittorio Cecchi Gori, Gaetano Daniele
- Author of original work : Antonio Skarmeta
- Press Attaché (film) : Floriane Mathieu
- Production Designer : Lorenzo Baraldi
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : Italian
- Coproducer countries : Italy, France, Belgium
- Original French-language productions : No
- Nationality : Minority French (Italy, France, Belgium)
- Production year : 1994
- French release : 26/04/1996
- Runtime : 1 h 40 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 85.946
- Visa issue date : 07/02/1996
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
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"(...) "The Postman" also has poetry usually not a big seller on film. Still, the poetry is put in the mouth of the humble postman. In doing this, the film makers have made the poetry nonthreatening to mainstream audiences (...). And here, of course, the poetry is Neruda's, which can melt the most hardened heart.(...)"
(Dinitia Smith - New York Times)
