C. G. Group Tiger - Pentafilm/Esterno Mediterraneo/Blue Dahlia Production Mario and Vittorio Cecchi Gori and Gaetano Daniele, Producers
The local postmaster, overwhelmed by the daily mail being sent to Neruda even prior to his arrival, hires Mario Ruoppolo (Massimo Troisi), the son of a local fisherman desperate for an escape from his father's fishing boat. The young postman's first instinct is to take advantage of his close contact with Neruda, celebrated poet of love, to improve his own profile in the community, especially with women. That all changes as Mario slowly gains the aloof poet's confidence. An improbable but touching friendship develops as Neruda introduces Mario to the lyrical world of poetry and its lush and sometimes sensuous metaphors. Almost as a consequence, Mario falls in love with the beautiful but unapproachable Beatrice Russo (Maria Grazia Cucinotta). In enlisting Neruda's help in the daunting task of seducing her, Mario discovers a sense of himself he's never had as his own inner soul blossoms. And he learns that a way with words can be a marvelous way to a woman's heart.
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THE POSTMAN (IL POSTINO) is the humorous and moving tale of a simple postman whose eyes are opened to a world of entirely new possibilities when he finds himself delivering letters to one of the most romantic poets of the twentieth century. The film was inspired by an incident in the life of renowned Chilean poet and diplomat, Pablo Neruda played by Philippe Noiret, who was forced into exile from his native country in 1952 and granted sanctuary by the Italian government on a remote, beautiful island off the coast of Naples.
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