Finché c'è prosecco c'è speranza (2017)

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The Last Prosecco is a 2017 Italian giallo comedy film co-written and directed by Antonio Padovan in his first feature film, based on the 2010 Italian novel Finché c'è prosecco c'è speranza by co-screenwriter Fulvio Ervas. Set mainly in the Province of Treviso, the area of the Veneto region where Prosecco grapes are grown, the film follows an awkward police inspector assigned to investigate a bizarre suicide followed swiftly by two murders. The film spotlights the Prosecco-making world while incorporating "a strong environmental message". The film has "captivated audiences through the expression of the magic and charm" of a "unique region of Italy."

Production

Antonio Padovan was born and raised between the Prosecco hills in Conegliano, a small town near Venice. In 2007, he moved to New York City, where he interned and then worked for an architectural firm, eventually transitioning to a successful career in commercials, videos and short films. In 2016, he returned to his hills near Venice to shoot his first feature film.

When asked what made him choose to return home to make his first feature film, Padovan revealed that he had been faced with a crossroads: he had been considering directing an English coming-of-age story, something like Stand by Me with elements of The Goonies and Stranger Things, but while on a ten-day vacation in Italy, his sister Mariangela suggested he read the 2010 novel Finché c'è Prosecco c'è Speranza by Fulvio Ervas.

Padovan's first feature film was a two-year project. He hoped to revive the giallo film, after years of the genre being more or less confined to television. He collaborated with Marco Pettenello and the novel's author Fulvio Ervas to write the screenplay, which involved making quite a few changes from the novel. The film's working title was L'ultimo desiderio.

Antonio Padovan said that The Last Prosseco did not receive public funding from any level of government, nor from producers of Prosecco itself. Nicola Fedrigoni stated that he and Valentina Zanella had spent years looking for a project that would celebrate the Veneto region and its beauty with a compelling story, and accepted the draft screenplay without hesitation as soon as it was submitted.

Principal photography began on 17 October 2016 and was scheduled to end on 12 November. The film was shot in the Veneto's winemaking regions, particularly the Prosecco Hills in the Province of Treviso, which extend over more than 440 square kilometres. Shooting locations included Conegliano, Farra di Soligo, Revine Lago, Rolle, San Pietro di Feletto, Tarzo and Valdobbiadene, most of them key wine-producing towns and villages.

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