The Legend of the Holy Drinker (film)
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The Legend of the Holy Drinker (Italian: La leggenda del santo bevitore) is a 1988 Italian film written and directed by Ermanno Olmi.
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Directed by | Ermanno Olmi |
Written by | Ermanno Olmi Tullio Kezich |
Starring | Rutger Hauer |
Cinematography | Dante Spinotti |
Edited by | Paolo Cottignola Ermanno Olmi Fabio Olmi |
Music by | José Padilla Sánchez Ilter Pelosi Igor Stravinsky |
Production company | Cecchi Gori Group |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures Italia |
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Running time | 127 minutes |
Countries | Italy France |
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The film won the Golden Lion at the 45th Venice Film Festival.[1] It also won four David di Donatello Awards (for Best Film, Best Director, Best Cinematography and Best Editing) and two Silver Ribbons (for Best Director and Best Screenplay).[1] The film was selected as the Italian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 61st Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.[2]
It is based on the 1939 novella of the same name by the Austrian novelist Joseph Roth.[3]