My House in Umbria

My House in Umbria (2003)

Emily Delahunty is an eccentric British romance novelist who lives in Umbria in central Italy. One day while travelling, the train she is on is bombed by terrorists. After she wakes up in a hospital, she invites three of the other survivors of the disaster to stay at her Italian villa for recuperation. Of these are The General, a retired British Army veteran, Werner, a young German man, and Aimee, a young American girl who has now become mute after her parents were both killed in the explosion.

Date of release
2003-05-25
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (37)
Runtime
1h 43m
Genres
Drama, Mystery, TV Movie
Director
Richard Loncraine

Casting

Interesting facts

My House in Umbria is a 2003 British-Italian made-for-television drama mystery film directed by Richard Loncraine. Loosely based on William Trevor's 1991 novella of the same name, published alongside another novella in the collection Two Lives, the film stars Maggie Smith as Emily Delahunty, a flamboyant English romance novelist living in Umbria. After surviving a terrorist bombing aboard a train, Emily invites several fellow survivors to recuperate at her home, including Aimee, a young American girl orphaned in the attack, to whom she becomes particularly attached.

Production

The film was developed for American cable television network HBO and produced as a British-Italian co-production by Canine Films and Panorama Films in association with HBO Films. Anne Wingate served as producer, with Frank Doelger and Robert Allan Ackerman as executive producers and Marco Valerio Pugini as co-producer.

As with Whitemore, My House in Umbria reunited Loncraine with several members of The Gathering Storm's production team, including production designer Luciana Arrighi and casting director Irene Lamb. The film also assembled an experienced international crew, with Christina Onori serving as art director and Alessandra Querzola as set decorator, while several members of the team would go on to collaborate with Loncraine on later projects.

My House in Umbria was filmed in 2002, primarily on location in Italy, with additional studio filming in Italy and the United Kingdom. The film's visual design presented several logistical challenges for Loncraine and his team, particularly because the Italian landscape had changed considerably in the years since the period in which Trevor's novella is set.

Although the film is set in Umbria, a region of central Italy, much of it was shot elsewhere in the country. Many scenes depicting Delahunty's villa, the film's principal setting, were filmed at Villa Arceno, a historic estate situated south of San Gusmè, a hamlet of Castelnuovo Berardenga in the Province of Siena, Tuscany. The former private estate dates back to the 17th century and was owned by a consortium at the time of filming.

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