Duse
by Pietro Marcello
After decades on stage, Eleonora Duse looks back on a legendary career that seems to have run its course. But in the savage days between World War I and the rise of Fascism, the Divine Duse heeds a call stronger than any resignation and returns to where her life began: the stage. It is not only the desire to act that drives her, but a deep urgency: the need to reaffirm herself in a world that is inexorably changing and that threatens to take everything away from her, including the financial independence she has won with her life's work. Once again, Eleonora chooses theater as the only refuge for truth and resistance. Armed only with her art, she defies time and disenchantment, transforming every word and every gesture into a revolutionary act. But the price of holding up beauty against the brutality of power and history is high. Relationships seem to dissolve, and her health worsens. Yet Eleonora will face her last journey convinced that one can give up life itself, but never one’s true nature.
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Fanni Wrochna
Noémie Merlant
Direction: Pietro Marcello
Treatment and Screenplay: Letizia Russo, Guido Silei, Pietro Marcello
Casting Director: Davide Zurolo
Editing: Fabrizio Federico, Cristiano Travaglioli
Associate Editors: Alessio Franco, Luca Carrera
Photography: Marco Graziaplena
Operator: Michel - Clement Franco
Music: Marco Messina, Sacha Ricci, Fabrizio Elvetico
Set Design: Gaspare De Pascali
Art Director: Mattia Lorusso
Production Design: Carlotta Desmann
Costume Design: Ursula Patzak
Make-up Designer: Maurizio Fazzini
Hair Designer: Samantha Giorgia Mura
Live Sound Engineer: Denny De Angelis
Production Manager: Federico Gera
Assistant Director: Ciro Scognamiglio
Editing Secretary: Benedetta Lepri
VFX Supervisor: Arianna Capra
Direct Sound Editing: Federico Cabula, Alessandro Feletti
Sound Effects: David Quadroli
Colorist: Nazzareno Neri
Delegated Producers (Palomar): Marco Camilli, Margherita Chiti, Luigi Pinto
Delegated Producer (Avventurosa): Marta Salandi
Executive Producer: Francesco Beltrame
Produced by: Carlo Degli Esposti, Nicola Serra, Marco Grifoni (for Palomar), Benedetta Cappon (for Avventurosa)
Production: Palomar – a Mediawan company, Avventurosa, with Rai Cinema and Piperfilm
In co-production with: Ad Vitam Films
In collaboration with: Berta Film
Original title: Duse
International title: Duse
Duration: 122 min
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Format: DCP
Sound: 5. 1
Year: 2025
Original language: italian
Country(ies) of production: Italy, France
Production Companies: Palomar, Avventurosa
Co-production Companies: Rai Cinema, Piperfilm, Ad Vitam Films, Berta Film
With the support of: Ministero della Cultura, Regione Veneto, Veneto Film Commission, Regione Lazio, Creative Europe
