Signora Enrica

Signora Enrica
Signora Enrica
	Theatrical poster
Directed by	Ali İlhan
Written by	Ali İlhan
Produced by	Elvan Arca ; Can Arca
Starring	Claudia Cardinale ; İsmail Hacıoğlu ; Lavinia Longhi ; Teoman Kumbaracıbaşı ; Nilay Cennetkuşu ; Fahriye Evcen ; Bedia Ener ; Sema Çeyrekbaşı ; Murat Karasu
Cinematography	Soykut Turan
Edited by	Arzu Volkan
Music by	Orhan Şallıel
Production; company	Ares Media
Distributed by	Filmpot
Release date	October 15, 2010;
Running time	110 minutes
Country	Turkey
Languages	Turkish; Italian
Budget	US$1,000,000 (estimated)

Signora Enrica (Turkish: Sinyora Enrica ile İtalyan Olmak) is a 2010 Italo-Turkish comedy-drama film, written and directed by Ali İlhan, starring Claudia Cardinale as an elderly Italian woman who takes in a young Turkish exchange student. The film, which is scheduled to go on nationwide general release across Turkey on February 25, 2011 (2011-02-25), was selected for the 47th International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival.

Production

The film was shot on location in Istanbul, Turkey and Rimini, Italy.^[1]

Plot

Abandoned with a son by her husband years ago, Signora Enrica is notorious in her native Rimini for refusing to allow any men into her house ever since. She rents out rooms to female students, while also working as a tailor and at the market. She decides to make an exception to her age-old rule for Ekin, a Turkish student who comes to her house.

Though Ekin doesn't speak Italian, he falls in love with Valentina, another tenant in the house, and seeks ways of communicating with her. Signora Enrica teaches Ekin Italian, dancing, and the subtleties of Italian cuisine – in other words, everything he needs to know to reach out to Valentina. Signora Enrica's son Giovanni begins to begrudge his mother for giving a stranger the love she has denied everybody else for years.