Marrakech Express
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| Directed by | Gabriele Salvatores |
| Produced by | Gianni Minervini |
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Umberto Contarello Carlo Mazzacurati Enzo Monteleone |
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Diego Abatantuono Fabrizio Bentivoglio Cristina Marsillach Giuseppe Cederna Gigio Alberti |
| Music by | Roberto Ciotti |
| Cinematography | Italo Petriccione |
| Edited by | Nino Baragli |
| Distributed by | Sony |
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110 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Marrakech Express is a 1989 Italian film directed by Gabriele Salvatores and starring Diego Abatantuono, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Cristina Marsillach, Giuseppe Cederna, and Gigio Alberti. A classical road movie, it was the first installment of Salvatores' trilogia della fuga ("escape trilogy"), followed by On Tour (1990) and the Academy Award winning Mediterraneo (1991). The cast of the three movies is partly the same; most notably, Diego Abatantuono has a leading role in all of them.
The plot revolves around a group of ex-high school friends that reunite in their 30s for a long journey together, and has been compared to Lawrence Kasdan's The Big Chill and Kevin Reynolds' Fandango. The soundtrack, that contributes to the nostalgic atmosphere of the movie, features original songs by blues guitarist and songwriter Roberto Ciotti as well as Italian evergreens from the 1970s such as L'anno che verrà by Lucio Dalla and La leva calcistica del '68 by Francesco De Gregori.
The screenplay was nominated for Premio Solinas.
Marco (Bentivoglio) is visited at home by a girl named Teresa (Marsillach) who claims to be the girlfriend of Rudy (Massimo Venturiello), an old college friend of Marco's; she also claims that Rudy is in jail in Morocco (for possession of hashish), and has sent her over to his old friends to collect the 30 millions lire that are needed to bribe a judge and return him to freedom.
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