Italian director Roberto Ando's latest, 'The Stolen Caravaggio,' stars Micaela Ramazzotti as a ghost screenwriter who gets in trouble with the Sicilian Mafia. Art history nuts will be disappointed to know that the Caravaggio referenced in the English-language title — the original title translates as "The. A Roman screenwriter without inspiration turns to a ghost writer who, in turn, is inspired by a mysterious character who tells her a story about the Sicilian mafia's involvement in the case of a famous stolen painting in the glossy Italian film The Stolen Caravaggio (Una storia senza nome).

One day, she receives an unusual present from a stranger: it's the plot of a movie about the mysterious but really-happened theft of a. Famed for its fabulously evocative recreation of the light/shade luminosity of Caravaggio's oil paintings, Caravaggio is nevertheless something of a victim of its times. But despite that, it is a wonderfully bold work, simply irresistible to look at.

The Stolen Caravaggio

Starring: Micaela Ramazzotti, Renato Carpentieri, Laura Morante and others. Valeria, young secretary of a producer, lives with an eccentric mother and secretly writes for a successful screenwriter, Alessandro. Valeria is a ghostwriter for a screenwriter lacking inspiration. When she gets a plot of a new film by a mysterious character, an exciting intrigue starts. View all The Stolen Caravaggio pictures. Use tags to describe a product e.g. for a movie Themes heist, drugs, kidnapping, coming of age Genre drama, parody, sci-fi, comedy Locations paris, submarine, new york.

Trailer The Stolen Caravaggio

The film is a fictionalised re-telling of the life of Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Tempestuous and arrogant, Caravaggio was forever getting into brawls. He swaggered about with a sword at his side and once flung a plate of scalding Recently, while filming a new BBC television documentary about stolen art, I travelled to Palermo to find out more about Caravaggio's Nativity.

Starring Alice Eve, Jack Davenport, Richard O'Brien, Graham McTavish, and Stan Walker. After making us reach for our tissues with Mum's List last year, director Niall Johnson has ventured down under for The Stolen, an antipodean western about another. Check out the exclusive TVGuide.com movie review and see our movie rating for Caravaggio. Though the film takes liberties with time and place, it can hardly.