Rimini (2022)

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Rimini is a 2022 drama film directed by Ulrich Seidl. It depicts Richie Bravo, a once-famous Austrian pop singer who has settled in Italy, as well as his estranged daughter and his retired father. Hans-Michael Rehberg plays the father, in his last film role. The film is the first in a diptych; the other film, Sparta, is about Richie's brother, Ewald. Rimini premiered at the 2022 Berlin International Film Festival.

Production

The character of Richie Bravo was written for Michael Thomas. Seidl conceived of the character after Thomas sang a Frank Sinatra song at a restaurant impromptu while shooting Import/Export (2007).

The film was shot in Austria, Italy, Romania, and Germany for a total of 85 days over the course of a year from March 2017. The shoot in Rimini was set to take place in November 2017, but was postponed until early 2018 because winter fog did not arrive as anticipated.

Seidl and Veronika Franz wrote the diptych originally as one film titled Wicked Games (German: Böse Spiele), with the two plotlines told in parallel, but they decided to split it into two films in the editing process. Seidl said, "the unifying element here is the search for happiness and the attempt to leave one's past behind.

Fritz Ostermayer and Herwig Zamernik wrote Richie Bravo's Schlager songs.

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