Sweet Dreams

Sep 10, 1981

1h 40m

★ 7.1

Overview

Michele is a young filmmaker frustrated by the lack of understanding his work receives and at odds with the film industry, especially a colleague making a musical on the '68 student protests. As he struggles to complete his own film about Freud's mother, Michele's insecurity and creative block manifest in a series of unsettling nightmares. Nanni Moretti's self-inquiry into cinema, political ennui, and men's relationships with their mothers.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

Opera Film Produzione

RAI

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Cast

Michele Apicella

Nanni Moretti

Nicola

Nicola Di Pinto

Silvia

Laura Morante

Gaetano

Alessandro Haber

Freud

Remo Remotti

Madre di Michele

Piera Degli Esposti

Gigio Cimino

Gigio Morra

Presentatore TV

Giampiero Mughini

critico

Dario Cantarelli

aiuto regista

Tatti Sanguineti

Claudio

Claudio Spadaro

Miranda Campa

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