Francesco Gagliardi Production acquires right to show “Arrividerci”

The Italian film company Francesco Gagliardi Production has purchased the right to show the movie “Arrividerci” produced by the Moldovan director and operator Valeriu Jereghi during the next 15 years. The contract was signed on Friday, March 20, in Rome. Valeriu Jereghi has told Info-Prim Neo that Francesco Gagliardi Production assumed the right to transpose the film from video on cinematographic film, to screen “Arrividerci” at Italian film festivals, to carry out an advertising campaign to present the picture to the general public in Italian cinemas and at the television channels RAI 3 and SKY, and to reproduce it on DVD. The director also said that after several screenings in Rome, Venice and Torino, “Arrividerci” gained the support of the central and local authorities in Italy and of nongovernmental organizations, including those founded by the Moldovans living in this country. The signatories to the contract – Francesco Gagliardi Production and Prim-Plan Studio that made the movie and where Valeriu Jereghi works as art director – agreed that at the start of June the movie will be shown in the greatest hall in Roma, AUDITORIUM, which has 7,000 places and will bring together the Italian senior authorities and the administration of Rome. “Arrivederci” is based on a true story of two Moldovan children, aged 5 and 7, whose mother works abroad. Their father abandoned them. The children live alone struggling with poverty. They support each other and dream of growing older and going to Italy, where their mother works. The fate of the script “Migratory Birds” written by Valeriu Jereghi was also decided in Italy. This scrip that narrates about a difficult period in Moldova’s history and about three sisters’ love for a Romanian soldier, an Italian and a Russian has been gathering dust in the Culture Ministry’s drawers for over a year. The director says that after realizing he will not be able to carry out this project in Moldova, he translated the script into Italian and presented it to the Italian producer Francesco Gagliardi. It was decided that the movie will be made by Societa di Produzione Cinematografica Francesco Gagliardi Production, Prim-Plan Studio and TriT Company owned by Russia’s Nikita Mihalkov. The Italian producer insisted that internationally renowned stars play parts in the movie. The screening right belongs to Francesco Gagliardi. The movie will be shot in Moldova and Italy.